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Everybody. thank you so much. good to see you all. happy new year. and happy belated birthday. i forgot yesterday when we saw you on the program. so grateful you decided to spend it with us. up next, new evidence suggesting north korea could be planning another missile test in the new year, this as he warns china he may get tougher on trade if he doesn't do more to sanction kim jong-un. >> plus puerto rico more utility workers. it has been three months and some people still don't have electricity. cnn takes you to hardest hit areas where they are trying to recover after hurricane maria hit. ...

It could be may until they have any sort of power in the more remote areas. but brianna, just in the last hour the governor has announced he would like the u.s. army corps of engineers to expand its capacity. and now asking for 1,000 to 1,500 more workers, more utility workers from the states on this island working to restore power in puerto rico. >> all right. leyla santiago, in san juan, thank you for that report. we'll take a report and we'll be right back.

Questions given the scale of this thing. and what this company has worked on before. its other government contracts included, for example, replacing a metal pole and adding three miles of wiring in arizona. aaron davis joins us now from "the washington post" along with gabe gutierrez back in d.c. after spending weeks in puerto rico. aaron, walk us through some of the details about this electric company contract, basically. this bid to try to get people's lights back on in puerto rico. >> right. well, white fish energy has never done anything quite on this scale or remotely close to this scale....

Buildings that can withstand almost any hurricane. i had friends in florida who left their home on the golf and sarasota. they went to an elementary school. >> the view from the shelter. >> as a result, a lot of people survived. they had downed lines, downed trees and so forth. governor rick scott was on television around-the-clock just the way he should be. telling people what had happened. keep in mind paul, while this is happening, while people are sheltering in place there are thousands of workers, policemen, firemen, utility workers out there on the front line actually trying to mitigate ...

They are sleeping here on the side of the road in their vehicles so that they can survey the damage. people like jon devol, who is sleeping in his car tonight. we should have -- okay. meanwhile, cleanup continues all the rest of south florida. residents at miami beach lined up to try and get home. after evacuating they were lined up today and they are now able to get to miami beach beginning at i would say at 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. look, we've got calories of utility trucks, 30,000 utility workers are working around the clock to put up the downed power lines that people can get their powe...