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Published 2 hours ago • Updated 2 hours ago After being called off last year due to the coronavirus pandemic, another iconic parade is returning to the city of Chicago this month, as the Puerto Rican People’s Day Parade will take place in Humboldt Park. According to organizers, the parade will take place on June 19, and will celebrate several events, including the Puerto Rican community’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the island’s right to self determination, and the 50 th anniversary of the Crucifixion de Don Pedro Mural. Don't miss local breaking news and weather! Download our mobile app for iOS or Android
pressure from activists and from their own members to push this forward. so in some ways like this needed to happen and now the band-aid has been sort of pulled off and theoretically democrats go on and do other things, but realistically, it still going to be part of that -- >> bret: we will talk about where we go from here including the questions about the investigation, the ig and what's coming next now the mueller hearing is over, where do we in washington go from here, but first we are waiting for an announcement from puerto rico's embattled governor. you're looking live there at san juan about whether he's staying in office or bowing to intense pressure to design. we are told the video to the puerto rican people is going to be released soon. we don't have a clue what's in that video. we have cruise on the ground and san juan. we will have the latest when it happens here on fox. ♪ it's not sexy... oh delicious. or delicious... or fun. ♪
this lady standing in her house that had two walls standing, no roof, everything was soaked, everything was ruined. it was a mess. and the said, oh, i feel really bad for all those people who lost everything. and i said to her, ma'am, you have lost everything. i'm standing here, there's nothing here. and she said, yeah, but i still have that wall. and it really -- it struck me, it blew me away. and to me, it was really emblemattic of the puerto rican people and how they have decided to just pull through, whether it means a neighbor who has the one neighbor on the street who has a generator chilling everyone's ice or chilling everyone's medicine. they are going to figure it out. >> francis, i love that story. i think it is an amazing example of the resiliency you see on the island. and we did a segment on the show a couple weeks ago following up on the crisis in puerto rico, and we had a family on who had relocated because of the situation on the island here. some of those folks have
and prove the original news was fake. >> there are trump supporters who will look at this and say these are things the news is not telling me. they're getting food and medicine. and just the fact the white house is putting out a video like that that is very selective edited corrodes faith in news outlets that go ahead and reports things that are happening nationally. >> but donald trump as he was taking reaction started to actually blame the puerto rican people and in the tweet said they needed to take more responsibility for themselves. and what we just saw in that video was them editing out what the puerto rican people were doing to bolster his own point, which is just amazing. >> i know how you feel about pile ones, so i'm not going to ask you to defend on this.
make it clear, it's a mission to restore power on puerto rico full stop. he has some priorities. his prior i dids are temporary power generation rights now. that is the big diesel run. two, permanent generation. he will restored damaged generation capacity on the south of the island. three, transmission. those are the big lines that tra trachbs mi transmit power. and fourth distribution, the hook up to the houses. and i'm pretty certain that the puerto rican people will see the results of the dedicated army corps of engineers mission. >> if air drops would help, why are they not happening? >> it's my belief that most of the municipalities involved have identified the fastest route being ground based.
pharmacies, there's medicine in the pharmacies as well. so that's the difference between the relief cargo consigned to fema, which is very important, but not more important or this one less important than that one. they're equally as important. so fema's doing their job, now we need to start the flow of the distribution supply chain on the island to make sure that these kmadties just -- they reach their final destination. that's what we were saying that we need hands on, right? to make it. >> reporter: jose, thank you very much for taking the time. he's making the case that these resources are just as vital as resources brought here by fema. and that every day puerto ricans who are reaching out for portable water and can't find it, it doesn't really matter who is giving it to them, brooke. >> of course, thank you. we'll stay in close contact with you as that story progresses. let me quickly switch gears on to tom price, hhs secretary.
my last question. if i can, i'm going to end by saying please say a prayer for the people of puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands and for the 10,000 plus federal workers and volunteer workers, men and women that are helping those in need. honestly, this is something that will require weeks and months of patience as we restore power, get food and water and return to normalcy. thanks for your time. proud of puerto rican people and the governor has our confidence and faith. thank you. >> thank you, tom. we're running long today. i'm jump into questions and try to take a few before we have to cut off before the day. >> is the president taking steps
all kind of drinks because there's no bottled water anymore. there are places there are supplies, and they're being rationaled. for example, i went to a store yesterday and they had two cases per family, and they were running out. diesel for hospitals as well, that's major. yesterday i saw a tweet from a children's hospital. they were saying we're almost out of diesel and we have 85 children in the hospital. we'll have to evacuate the children from their beds. >> jose, that is terrifying. that is just -- it's bone chilling. >> and let me tell you something. we've seen many storms before. nothing like this one. and also, obviously, there was not enough preparation. the puerto rico national guard have time and again stood up and helped the puerto rican people and neighboring islands. but to give you an example, in the '80s, they had 20 huey
convicted of seditious conspiracy against the u.s. government, transporting firearms and explosives. he was sentenced to 70 years in prison, and he served 36 of those years. president obama commuted lopez rivera's sentence in january, but he was never charged with any specific violent crime. he was, though, a leader of the faln, and he was accused of being a bombmaker. the group's deadliest attack was a 1975 blast in new york city which killed four people including frank connor who was 33 at the time when he died in that last. his son, joe connor, spoke to us about how outraged he is. >> is he a hero? >> he's a hero to nobody. >> is he for freedom? >>. no oscar lopez wanted to enslave the puerto rican people into another cuba. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: now, the puerto rican day parade lost half of its corporate sponsors as a result of this decision. governor andrew cuomo of new