Tag Archives: Natural disaster

10/19/2017 President Trump said​ ​he would give his administration a perfect “10” for its response to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico. His rating of a 10 came despite that even almost a month after Hurricane Maria made landfall, only 22% of the country has electricity and 28% of the people do not have access to clean water.  About 78% of the hospitals ...

9/29/2017 Carmen Yulín Cruz, mayor of Puerto Rico’s capital San Juan, pleaded with the White House for immediate aid. “This is a ‘people are dying’ story,” she told CNN Friday morning. “Dammit, this is not a good news story,” Cruz said. “This is a people-are-dying story. This is a life or death story. . . . When you have people out there dying, ...