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Peninsula next. first, the rebuilding process in puerto rico. more than a month after hurricane maria, 75% of the island still in the dark. and late-night seth meyers calling out one cabinet member of the trump administration. >> secretary ben carson said today rebuilding puerto rico after the hurricane could take anywhere between 1 and 100 years and that's just the kind of precision you expect from a brain surgeon. morning on the beach was so peaceful. until... it... wasn't. don't let type 2 diabetes get between you and your heart. because your risk of heart attack or stroke is up to four tim...

The complicating factors for legislation has been on that side. so you must be excited to get over there and set those people straight. >> marsha: of course. the reality of where we are with tax reform is that in order to keep that vote threshold to majority on health care and other issues, he's got to get this going. so now we've got to vote. what is it going to look like? >> marsha: my hope is yes, the budget goes through today. yes, the house in the senate complete on health care. they need to get it done by the end of the year. i will tell you this. the tax reform vote does not happen, the...

Proud u.s. citizens of puerto rico equally. so while there has been a lot done and i want to thank you, mr. president, you answered our call for the real end emergency declaration, you declared puerto rico a disaster area very quickly and a verbal request that we made because we didn't have electricity at that moment, you gave us the waiver for a and b for fema. and sparse communication with all of your members now. we recognize that a lot has been done, but a lot has still has to be done. so we are hopeful these meetings that we are going to have come we are going to about the immediate needs...

Fema, the military, first responders cannot be there forever and no matter where you go, they cannot be there forever. >> if i may briefly add to that, that is a importance of the short-term and long-term packages that will be in congress, right. we're going to need some resources. of course, fema is there for the initial response. there is some rebuilding to go through, so what's why we're thankful to the president for supporting these petitions to congress so that we can get the resources,ly quid di to kick start the economy and of course, the long-term rebuilding process and this is very im...

Are looking at designs of a new power plant, big electrical plant in many different designs and concepts. which of course is very unusual. because he was in pretty rough shape. that's an even rougher shape. with that being said, i think we've done a really great job and we have tremendous cooperation from the governor and we are getting there and people are releasing the effort that has been put into puerto rico. it's been a very, very difficult situation for many people, i will say that. especially the island nature. if you look at getting food there, the distribution was very difficult becau...