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we'll hear from the president's FEMA administrator Brock long in a moment

first the president's target San Juan mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz mayor thank you

for joining us this morning your reaction to the president well first of

all mr. Stephanopoulos there's only one goal and in saving lives so any any

dialogue that goes on just has to be able to produce results and all I did

last week or even this week was to ask for help it has to happen in a sustained

manner it has to happen quickly and mayor's all over Puerto Rico are getting

to the supply areas and been told look call us a few day laters people are

being told to register via internet for FEMA relief when we don't have any

internet or very little internet even in the San Juan metropolitan area I

recognize the good heart that the fina people have they want to help but they

just don't have the resources and it's not me who's saying it general Buchanan

a three-star general appointed now to take care of the situation said two days

ago we just don't have the resources in order to handle the logistical support

that is needed in San Juan and Puerto Rico but we have done all that we can

people are out there they're cleaning the streets community kitchens are

coming up and we are getting tons of donations on Thursday I got three

pallets of water four pallets of food and four pallets of babies supplies from

FEMA all of this I gave to the mayor of Chlamydia a town whose mayor had come to

the FEMA distribution center and had been told just wait until next Monday

because we have nothing you know depends on and on and on go star as a mayor the

president's FEMA director is suggesting you're not really plugged in yesterday

said you need to bake your way to the joint field office and get plugged into

what's going on have you been to the joint field office and if not why not

well number one I got a call from the white

a couple of days ago I think it was Thursday mr. Buster took it upon himself

to call and I was very glad that he called he seemed to be a very action

prone action a guy that does what he says and says what he does so we got

appointed a FEMA coordinator we have two people that are appointed to send one we

are the capital city we are the largest city in Puerto Rico with the most amount

of population and we got appointed just direct links so actually I was in FEMA

the couple of days afterwards when they were at the San Juan Mary and I was

invited to visit and we had been communicated ever since things have to

be done on a sustained manner if I only get for a population of 350,000 where

perhaps half of them are in need of food and water sustain supplies then you know

I get four pallets of food three pallets of water that's really not even going to

provide for a dent the supply chain of aid has to be sustained and we have the

logistics in order to do that will you have people from my administration

people from my administration have been to the COI yes will you meet with the

president on Tuesday and what do you want him to see well if he asks to meet

with me of course I would read with I mean you know anything that can be done

and anyone that can listen again I've been quite complimentary of the people

from HHS and FEMA their heart is in the right place but we have to cut the red

tape that that's the one message and number two let us not talk about the

debt let us not talk about the cost of reconstruction let us just talk about

saving lives right now putting back the power grid as soon as we can because

that has an immediate effect on our ability to recover financial are you

concerned that the debt is going to be an impediment to Puerto Rico getting the

help it needs over the long term well I hope it isn't but certainly some of

comments that have come from the White House seemed to point to that direction

you put the people above the dead you pose

lives and avoiding deaths about that that is just how things are done I mean

and and this is what I lived in the States for 12 years I went to school at

BU and I got my masters at Carnegie Mellon I worked for the federal

government and I've worked in private institutions in the United States I know

the good heart of the American people and I know that when a made a sound goes

off they come to the rescue they did it in Haiti they did it in Africa they've

done it all over the world we just want it to be done here in a Caribbean nation

that has 3.5 million u.s. citizens mera thank you very much for your time this

morning I know it has been a - thank you very much thank you thank you

god bless you and God bless america