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Chase. make more of what's yours. . the president and other government officials are saying about relief efforts in puerto rico, stand in contrast to what cnn reporters are finding on the ground in many places. people running out of food and water, just to let them know they're alive. bill weir found that when he travelled east of the main island. even getting there had its own set of challenges. what he found take a look. >> we lift off from san juan, a route steven has flown hundreds of times. but this is the scariest sky traffic he's ever seen. >> he said, you could sense the tension in t...

A look. >> reporter: we lift off from san juan, a route steven has flown hundreds of times. but this is the scariest sky traffic he's ever seen. >> he said, you could sense the tension in the air traffic controller's voice. >> absolutely. >> reporter: the airports have no work ing radar, so every slow cessna and every fast jet is flying by sight in a dust filled sky. >> the airspace is so crazy. it's actually dangerous right now. >> reporter: we cross over resorts, neighborhoods, all shattered by maria. and eight miles later, touchdown amid shattered airplanes, some of the first outsiders to r...

Bill weir joins us live from san juan. what did you see, bill? >> reporter: this is the roughest i've seen in half a week here. just for perspective, it is an island off an island. as bad as it is is here, it's worse there. for years it was a u.s. navy bombing range until george w. bush told them to move and clean all the munitions up. now it is a playground for the rich and famous and home to 10,000 natives who work there and support the tourist economy. for the last week, no one knew anything about their fate. they were in this black hole of information. so luckily we found an angel with a s...

Running. this is one ice plant out of several here in san juan that we've heard are totally shut down. people on the ground are desperate. they want help. they want answers. they feel they are not getting the resources that they need. they want the government to do more. >> boris sanchez from puerto rico, a sense of the struggle people are going through. 50 miles off the coast of the mainland of puerto rico there's the island of vieques, it's devastated. we see how the 10,000 drenresid are struggling. >> reporter: we lift off from san juan. a route steven has flown thousands of times. this i...