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Howie: even as hurricane florence was bearing down on the carolinas, much of the media began battering the president as a lousy president with no empathy for hurricane victims. president trump the problem with puerto rico is their electric grid and generating plant was dead before the storms hit. i think puerto rico was an incredible unsolved success. howie: he tweeted 3,000 people did not die in puerto rico. when i left the island after the storm left there were 6 to 18 deaths. then a long time later they started to report much larger numbers like 3,000. this was done by the democrats to make...

Administration's response wh hurricane maria pummeled the reason. zbl >> i think the best job we did was puerto rico, but nobody understands, it was a very hard thing to do because of the fact that they had no electric, before the storms hit, it was dead as you know. >> hurricane maria now we know killed nearly 3,000 americans, after the storm hit, that's more than the number that perished in hurricane katrina. back to the conversation now, again, kudos to the president for his warning about florence, a lot of fema briefings already, it seems like they're raising a lot of alarms, so far there ...

Actually the u.s. government did a good job handling this, because it was such a screwed up country that in spite of that, they did a good job. that's the narrative that he seems to have bought into and believes to be true, even though it's not. >> you worked for george w. bush. you know this reminds a lot of people of heck of a job, brownie. you don't praise when people are dying, especially if it's in the hundreds. you don't praise the response by the government. i mean, it's never going to be enough on a theoretical basis. >> well, and i didn't hear the president saying that 3,000 people dy...

Before the storm, and when the storm hit, that took it out entirely. the job that fema and law enforcement and everybody did working along with the governor in puerto rico i think was tremendous. i think puerto rico was an incredible unsung success. texas we have been given a pluses for. florida we've been given a pluses for, i think in a certain way, the best job we did was puerto rico, but nobody would understand that. it's harder to understand. it was a very hard thing to do. because of the fact they had no electric before the storms hit, it was dead as you probably know. so we've gotten a ...

Evacuations zones are. tropical models very good agreement here that this is going to make landfall and we are pretty darn sure that it's going to be at least a major hurricane category 3 or higher and, again, pretty good agreement right now, the computer models so we are anticipating a landfall thursday and friday and the gsf two reliable forecast models, again, in very good agreement but does it slow down or is it going to weaken as it makes landfall north ward, just a look at your sea surface temperatures, that is the warm water that the system needs to continue its strength or strengthen a...