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Hearing and those are the first hand accounts we're hearing on the island, everything is scarce. >> and there's a total lack of normalcy, which is the most important thing to reestablish after disasters. >> absolutely. my cousin who i mentioned is living with us now. she was studying for the mkats. everyone is trying to stay alive and focused and keep their loved ones alive. we're still very much in a crisis. >> first tell me how the song came about. how did the set of events sort of -- we saw the hurricane was coming and then it hit and what happened? >> i was on vacation. i was on a long pla...

Political. >> i mainly post audio snippets of my son making up songs and my song being cute. >> there is also sort of relentless positivity. you're not like a -- >> listen. >> you're not a critic and you're not an insult monger -- >> no -- >> and do that very well. and i see my role as, you know, stay focused, stay aware. stay engaged. but at the same time, coal ovme here if you want to see a cute dog video. >> but then i watched the president break you because it was like he had this outburst, you know, just this outburst targeted against the puerto rican people doing and you're go going to h...

Could use to raise funds, that's the lyric. because anytime we meet someone, we say your town. can i write a lyric that fits all 78 towns into a pop song, and then the other sort of component at the same time was i knew that maria, the name would forever have that horrible connotation. this was the worst disaster in puerto rico's history. i began thinking of maria in theater. so my first call was to the bernstein estate for permission to use the song for hurricane relief. within an hour, they said yes. i started writing the song. and then i burned up my rolod rolodex -- >> an incredible who's ...

>> who's who that really was the telephone chain. i mean i'm recording with rita and she said is gloria estefan on this song? i don't have her phone number. that's not the thing people have. sh song. >> whips out her phone. gloria is with us in the studio the next night and it really was th this. they just said yes, we'll do whatever we can and some of them i knew well. i worked with jennifer lopez before and worked with rita and some of whom i cold called on twitter and everyone just said yes. >> the 17-year-old most excited about fat joe being on it. [ laughter ] >> i know. the first time wa...

Happening on the island of puerto rico for awhile and the states and fellow americans who are not necessarily familiarly connected to the island should be thinking about how we are -- on the mainland are going to provide for people that want to leave the island or can't send their kids to school there. >> absolutely. yeah, no. that's all future chapters but they are all worthy of talking about and considering because there are -- there are futures on the line and there is a generation -- there are generations of people on the island who deserve the same future as any american citizen. >> what'...