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That bill did not contain mental health screen. >> mary schiavo and rene marsh, thank you both. >> the white house have been briefed. sarah westwood is live in new jersey right now, she's near the president's golf club where he is today whach, what are thyou ? >> reporter: the white house is finally responding to this incident. the president has been informed and he's monitoring what authorities are doing to figure out how this was allowed to happ happen. the president has been briefed on the incident involving a stolen plane in seattle and is monitoring the situation as information become ava...

Event was. >> no, and i know you have taken multiple trips to puerto rico. so since you have eye balled this yourself, let me ask you about the distribution areas, places where they can get in line for basic necessities, food, water, toilet paper. so all of our dozens people who have been on the ground in puerto rico reporters in the field say 30 miles from the convention center reporting back saying they are not seeing these distribution centers. my question to you is where are they? >> so my area of focus is infrastructure. i can speak briefly to the distribution. about 11 of the meg ta dist...

Back to puerto rico now which is still struggling to recover after hurricane maria tore through the island more than two weeks ago. joining us now on the phone is the governor of puerto rico, ricardo rossrossello. obviously it will take some time before the infrastructure can be rebuilt. but the mayor has been quite critical of the government's response efforts and continues to tweet stuff like this, increasingly painful to understand that american people want to help and the u.s. government does not want to help. we need water! and now listen to how fema director brock long responded. >> we f...

Some survivors. getting high marks on his response. thorny political issues lie ahead. new calls from democrats for new gun control legislation. a bill in congress allowing silencers for hunting. the president said we will talk about that later. >> sandra: the president said as he was leaving heading down to what is a very tough situation in puerto rico. what will he be seeing as he arrives there a little bit later today? >> he will meet with a lot of people deeply affected by this storm. meeting with a lot of first responders and military helping in the response efforts and meet with the gove...

Response efforts along with the sheriff. you've described this as war, as a battlefield. what did you, what did your first responders find when they went into those concert grounds? >> well, it was essentially a battlefield. this is something we respond to shootings and car wrecks and things of that nature that are tra tranlic events. however, this one the sheer magnitude of the people, the massive amounts of gunfire, it was a battleground. >> when you look at the number, the total number of people who were killed and hurt, it's almost 600. it's hard to even process for me as a number for you ...