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Hurricane Maria survivors went to the Juncos City Hall to register for disaster assistance.

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What we're doing here in this municipality of Juncos is we have set up a special needs

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intake center for yesterday and today.

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For two days we've been registering the citizens of the municipality of Juncos.

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We've used the combining of FEMA staff and also city official staff.

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The population of this community, this municipality of Juncos is 40,000 people.

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We don't have an exact number of how many have suffered damage, but would say the

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majority of them have suffered damage.

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And right now we're in Juncos, Puerto Rico, and we're registering survivors for disaster

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assistance for Hurricane Maria.

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How's it going?

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It's going very well, the spirit of the people here is amazing, especially the people

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who've lost the most.

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It's so sad to hear their story, but their spirits are up, and we're doing anything we

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can for them.

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FEMA goes to where survivors live.

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Our presence here yesterday and today, but once we leave and move to another

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municipality, the staff of this municipality will continue this operation ongoing until

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they can register everybody in the municipality.

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And even as citizens of Juncos continue to line up for disaster assistance, tanker

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trucks with clean drinking water are parked in large lots.

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With every container they can bring, survivors load up on the precious commodity.

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These people know that electricity, though desired, is a luxury right now.

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Water is a necessity.

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Maunabo is also registering survivors as well.

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I heard yesterday that we had 2000 people, I don't know how many we've had today,

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total....maybe 600 people came in.

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My name is Jorge Márquez.  I've been here as Mayor since 2001.

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FEMA is our....Esparanza...

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FEMA is our hope....our hope....for the municipality...yes, the municipality.

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For all of the events before, they have helped, very much...individual assistance is

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very important to us.

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Because the person who's lost their properties, there houses, all the things that was in the house.

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I think that this is very important for us that FEMA help, because you see today, we see

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about 700 persons, 700 families effected, before it was 400, so individual assistance is

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very important for us.

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For FEMA Public Affairs in Puerto Rico, 
I'm Paul McKellips.