WEBVTT 00:01.077 --> 00:01.910 - Good morning everybody. 00:01.910 --> 00:04.293 Thank you again for coming over here 00:04.293 --> 00:05.714 to all of the members of the press 00:05.714 --> 00:07.465 and to all of the people of Puerto Rico that are 00:07.465 --> 00:11.132 watching us, we're here to update you again, 00:11.303 --> 00:14.787 make some announcements, and talk about the expectations 00:14.787 --> 00:18.704 for the next timeframes that we have set forth. 00:19.621 --> 00:22.128 So first of all let me remind you 00:22.128 --> 00:24.295 that if you want to donate 00:24.350 --> 00:26.838 to the efforts that are occurring in Puerto Rico 00:26.838 --> 00:28.962 you can go to (speaking Spanish) 00:28.962 --> 00:31.129 or United For Puerto Rico. 00:31.310 --> 00:34.487 You can also call two zero two, eight hundred, 00:34.487 --> 00:36.154 three one three four 00:36.300 --> 00:40.467 to see how you can best help the people of Puerto Rico 00:40.682 --> 00:43.507 whether it be volunteering or donating. 00:43.507 --> 00:46.506 At the same time we remind you that we have 00:46.506 --> 00:50.256 all of the data points that have been updated 00:52.285 --> 00:55.035 several times a day on status.pr, 00:56.062 --> 00:58.341 many of the things that we'll be saying here today 00:58.341 --> 01:01.423 will be reflected over here in this website 01:01.423 --> 01:04.809 and it is a useful tool, particularly for the media 01:04.809 --> 01:07.787 so that they can use their platforms to communicate 01:07.787 --> 01:09.957 to the people of Puerto Rico what's occurring 01:09.957 --> 01:12.082 since a lot of the people in Puerto Rico 01:12.082 --> 01:13.774 do not have internet. 01:13.774 --> 01:17.857 So please help us communicate some of these stats 01:18.590 --> 01:21.840 and items to the people of Puerto Rico. 01:22.175 --> 01:24.258 I would like to, first of all, reiterate 01:24.258 --> 01:27.758 what our priorities are and keep on adding 01:28.782 --> 01:30.527 to that priority list. 01:30.527 --> 01:34.547 Water and food delivery keeps being a top priority, 01:34.547 --> 01:37.214 making sure that people of Puerto Rico have 01:37.214 --> 01:41.381 the elements important to survive through this crisis. 01:43.758 --> 01:45.841 Energy, restoring energy, 01:46.354 --> 01:48.674 whether it be through generators 01:48.674 --> 01:50.257 or the energy grid. 01:51.176 --> 01:55.017 Hospital sustainment so that our most vulnerable patients 01:55.017 --> 01:58.184 can withstand this post storm effects. 01:59.731 --> 02:01.947 Repair and maintenance of generators 02:01.947 --> 02:03.500 is a critical component. 02:03.500 --> 02:06.667 We are strongly pushing for the agenda 02:07.249 --> 02:11.016 so that recognizing that the energy grid is weak 02:11.016 --> 02:15.183 and that the power outcomes are relatively slow to come. 02:15.359 --> 02:18.442 We want to make sure that our network 02:19.818 --> 02:22.568 of generators is fully functional 02:22.811 --> 02:26.342 and that they get their proper maintenance going on. 02:26.342 --> 02:28.561 Public health and emergency watch 02:28.561 --> 02:32.728 and serving and preventing such public health emergencies 02:33.147 --> 02:36.647 are a critical component of the next steps 02:37.341 --> 02:41.508 as well as starting the planning for opening of schools 02:43.219 --> 02:47.386 and the school year within the next couple of weeks. 02:49.017 --> 02:52.129 At the same time we're gonna be working 02:52.129 --> 02:54.572 many of the documentation for the relief 02:54.572 --> 02:56.322 and recovery efforts. 02:56.534 --> 02:59.659 Yesterday we had the visit of senators, 02:59.659 --> 03:02.242 a bipartisan, bicameral effort. 03:02.252 --> 03:06.089 We discussed some of the needs that we have for Puerto Rico. 03:06.089 --> 03:08.343 Sometimes it's confusing because there are different 03:08.343 --> 03:10.670 vehicles, but the first vehicle would be 03:10.670 --> 03:13.297 an immediate relief vehicle for Puerto Rico, 03:13.297 --> 03:15.662 I'll discuss some of those details 03:15.662 --> 03:19.037 if we wanna get into that, but essentially for that 03:19.037 --> 03:23.204 we are asking at least $4.6 billion in immediate relief 03:24.779 --> 03:27.598 so that we can start mitigating the effects 03:27.598 --> 03:30.805 of the disaster and on the economy for Puerto Rico. 03:30.805 --> 03:34.055 There is a longer term recovery package 03:34.320 --> 03:36.863 that should be coming after that. 03:36.863 --> 03:39.910 For that to be effective we need to have better data 03:39.910 --> 03:42.910 on what the damage is in Puerto Rico 03:43.647 --> 03:46.314 and therefore asking congress to 03:48.009 --> 03:52.176 treat the citizens of Puerto Rico equally to other states. 03:52.249 --> 03:55.130 And there is a liquidity issue as well, 03:55.130 --> 03:59.297 and what we're doing is we're working with the treasury. 03:59.990 --> 04:02.003 I've spoken to the Secretary of the Treasury 04:02.003 --> 04:05.482 and our teams are working to identify mechanisms 04:05.482 --> 04:08.510 so that we can supplement our liquidity needs 04:08.510 --> 04:10.010 in the short term. 04:13.539 --> 04:16.332 So those are the priorities that are set forth. 04:16.332 --> 04:18.815 I also have several announcements. 04:18.815 --> 04:21.322 We've received several complaints 04:21.322 --> 04:22.239 from people 04:24.499 --> 04:28.666 that either food delivery that's been delivered by FEMA 04:28.856 --> 04:32.496 to municipalities is not getting to the people 04:32.496 --> 04:34.246 or, at the same time, 04:35.495 --> 04:38.162 in terms of complaints by stores 04:39.350 --> 04:42.100 that are either charging the tax, 04:43.333 --> 04:46.446 the consumption tax, or that are raising prices 04:46.446 --> 04:50.613 that are not following the order of freezing of the prices 04:51.514 --> 04:55.681 or freezing gains with the gasoline distribution, as well. 04:58.170 --> 05:00.232 So there have been complaints 05:00.232 --> 05:03.149 of poor management in these fronts. 05:03.892 --> 05:06.179 So what are we gonna do about it? 05:06.179 --> 05:08.736 In terms of the municipalities, we're going to send 05:08.736 --> 05:12.069 our National Guard to the municipalities 05:12.282 --> 05:14.612 to be part of an effort and help 05:14.612 --> 05:16.835 the different municipalities get more visibility 05:16.835 --> 05:19.137 and distribute food more effectively 05:19.137 --> 05:21.008 to the people of Puerto Rico. 05:21.008 --> 05:22.425 I have also asked 05:24.528 --> 05:27.461 the (speaking Spanish) 05:27.461 --> 05:30.098 and Department of Justice here in Puerto Rico 05:30.098 --> 05:32.550 to start opening up immediate investigations 05:32.550 --> 05:34.197 to some of these claims 05:34.197 --> 05:37.779 to make sure that food is being properly delivered 05:37.779 --> 05:39.931 and that the actions are properly taken, 05:39.931 --> 05:41.764 and by the third token 05:42.294 --> 05:46.461 I will sign an executive order that will allow auditors 05:48.255 --> 05:50.362 that we have in (speaking Spanish) 05:50.362 --> 05:52.966 and other parts of the government 05:52.966 --> 05:56.066 to be deployed to these municipalities 05:56.066 --> 05:58.835 so that they can make proper accountability 05:58.835 --> 06:01.154 of the food that is being distributed 06:01.154 --> 06:03.015 and make sure that people have access 06:03.015 --> 06:04.470 to all of the food and all of the water 06:04.470 --> 06:06.123 that's being distributed. 06:06.123 --> 06:08.779 So we are going to be robust with this, 06:08.779 --> 06:11.261 we are going to make sure that if food and water 06:11.261 --> 06:12.665 is getting to the municipalities 06:12.665 --> 06:16.702 that that food and water gets to the people of Puerto Rico. 06:16.702 --> 06:19.785 We are also going to be vigilant upon 06:20.151 --> 06:22.401 the stores and the commerce 06:24.591 --> 06:26.008 to make sure that 06:27.669 --> 06:31.471 you're not breaking the instructions and raising prices 06:31.471 --> 06:33.471 or charging for the tax. 06:34.410 --> 06:37.577 We will have a vehicle on the website, 06:38.078 --> 06:40.997 on status.pr where you can make those claims. 06:40.997 --> 06:42.760 Some of those claims have been made 06:42.760 --> 06:44.998 through the social media efforts. 06:44.998 --> 06:46.597 We will have an effort over here 06:46.597 --> 06:49.352 and our Secretary of Consumer Affairs 06:49.352 --> 06:51.874 will be very vigilant for them. 06:51.874 --> 06:54.624 I should say that at his petition 06:55.225 --> 06:59.392 we're also going to give the Secretary of Consumer Affairs 07:00.076 --> 07:03.251 access to human resources so that we can have 07:03.251 --> 07:05.123 more auditors with him also 07:05.123 --> 07:07.456 seeing some of these claims. 07:09.531 --> 07:11.492 In addition to having the website where you can 07:11.492 --> 07:14.178 make the claims you can also call three one one 07:14.178 --> 07:16.761 and make those claims by phone. 07:17.694 --> 07:20.444 And lastly, I want to extend this 07:21.723 --> 07:23.140 observation path, 07:23.427 --> 07:27.594 this effort in transparency to the central government 07:28.191 --> 07:29.587 agencies as well. 07:29.587 --> 07:32.883 So we'll be verifying central government agencies, 07:32.883 --> 07:36.966 municipalities, and the private sector and stores 07:37.923 --> 07:41.036 to make sure that all pertinent actions 07:41.036 --> 07:42.707 are being taken care of 07:42.707 --> 07:46.457 and that the proper transparency is affected. 07:47.657 --> 07:49.423 I would also like to announce that 07:49.423 --> 07:51.756 thanks to an effort with HHS 07:53.669 --> 07:56.960 we will now have the emergency prescription program 07:56.960 --> 07:58.399 in place in Puerto Rico. 07:58.399 --> 08:00.001 What this means is that 08:00.001 --> 08:03.533 over 500,000 Puerto Ricans that don't have access 08:03.533 --> 08:06.952 to healthcare will have access without that plan 08:06.952 --> 08:09.202 to acquire certain medicine 08:10.210 --> 08:13.293 and use of certain equipment as well. 08:14.449 --> 08:16.616 So this is very important. 08:16.845 --> 08:19.972 All of those that don't have access to healthcare 08:19.972 --> 08:22.936 in Puerto Rico now can have that access 08:22.936 --> 08:26.250 and the phone to call so that you can get 08:26.250 --> 08:28.379 subscribed to this process. 08:28.379 --> 08:31.629 It's eight five five, seven nine three, 08:32.777 --> 08:34.610 seven four seven zero. 08:34.913 --> 08:38.813 I'll repeat that, it's eight five five, seven nine three, 08:38.813 --> 08:40.646 seven four seven zero. 08:40.810 --> 08:42.227 So we'll ask also 08:46.343 --> 08:49.392 our tech specialist to put it on the website 08:49.392 --> 08:51.743 so that people can go the website 08:51.743 --> 08:54.243 and then the media can help us 08:54.574 --> 08:57.491 promote this phone number, as well. 08:57.587 --> 08:59.485 I would also like to announce that 08:59.485 --> 09:03.652 the (speaking Spanish) is working effectively. 09:03.801 --> 09:06.551 It has space, they've asked us to 09:06.566 --> 09:10.066 let everybody know that there is space for 09:10.503 --> 09:14.389 about 100 more people in the (speaking Spanish) 09:14.389 --> 09:16.709 at least as of yesterday in the afternoon. 09:16.709 --> 09:19.492 They're working with the power grid 09:19.492 --> 09:23.659 but also a generator and transformer were installed 09:24.055 --> 09:26.552 by the Army Core Engineers so that 09:26.552 --> 09:29.135 in case there is a power outage 09:29.307 --> 09:31.890 the center can keep on working. 09:32.341 --> 09:35.269 I'd like to state that within the schools 09:35.269 --> 09:37.746 and the reopening of schools it is our objective 09:37.746 --> 09:41.913 that at least 78 schools will be open within this week 09:42.427 --> 09:46.427 to start adding to the 22 that were already open 09:46.850 --> 09:48.267 previous to that. 09:49.084 --> 09:52.167 It is our goal to have a final report 09:52.604 --> 09:55.562 on the infrastructure damage and the functionality 09:55.562 --> 09:58.479 of school by the 16th and to start, 09:58.964 --> 10:01.247 at least provisionally and regionally, 10:01.247 --> 10:02.914 schools by the 23rd. 10:04.022 --> 10:08.189 I'm also announcing that I've asked our state coordinator 10:09.105 --> 10:12.855 to provoke a conversation and a meeting today 10:13.234 --> 10:15.310 with certain stakeholders 10:15.310 --> 10:18.791 such as HHS, the (speaking Spanish), 10:18.791 --> 10:20.708 and the forensic center 10:20.982 --> 10:25.149 to pinpoint and keep on ironing our the death toll 10:25.512 --> 10:29.095 in Puerto Rico for deaths that are directly 10:30.159 --> 10:32.742 or indirectly related to Maria. 10:33.355 --> 10:37.188 So Secretary Pasqueda will be doing that today 10:37.908 --> 10:40.429 and quite possibly in the afternoon 10:40.429 --> 10:43.929 we'll be giving an update on the findings. 10:44.588 --> 10:47.171 I would also like to state that 10:47.314 --> 10:50.814 a power plant in San Juan came down today. 10:53.156 --> 10:55.989 It produced a significant drop off 10:57.580 --> 11:00.721 in the total energy production that we had 11:00.721 --> 11:04.888 in Puerto Rico, it's substation number six in San Juan 11:06.005 --> 11:08.419 which provided power to San Juan Carolina 11:08.419 --> 11:10.752 and parts of Viamon as well. 11:12.463 --> 11:15.880 This was due to a lack of synchronization 11:16.826 --> 11:19.153 and of course potentially weather patterns 11:19.153 --> 11:21.986 that were affected in Puerto Rico. 11:22.863 --> 11:26.879 What this demonstrate is the fragility of our system. 11:26.879 --> 11:30.989 It is important to recognize that just putting the system 11:30.989 --> 11:34.559 back up is not gonna fix the problem in the mid 11:34.559 --> 11:36.099 or in the long term. 11:36.099 --> 11:38.801 So this should be clear indication 11:38.801 --> 11:41.393 that when we look forward to a strategy 11:41.393 --> 11:45.509 in the mid and long term, we can not just be talking about 11:45.509 --> 11:49.654 reestablishing the old system, we need to start thinking 11:49.654 --> 11:53.821 about a newer, more robust, more resilient system. 11:54.092 --> 11:57.989 So we need to start looking for those alternatives 11:57.989 --> 12:00.625 and again, even though this happened 12:00.625 --> 12:04.458 the public employees of Prepa are working hard 12:04.686 --> 12:08.853 to restore the balance of that infrastructure by today. 12:09.964 --> 12:11.635 So we'll keep you informed. 12:11.635 --> 12:15.802 As soon as it gets restored we'll update you on that. 12:16.947 --> 12:19.265 Lastly, I would say that, again, 12:19.265 --> 12:21.172 we're working on estimates. 12:21.172 --> 12:23.554 We have all of our team working with our agencies 12:23.554 --> 12:27.168 to provide the federal government all of the documentation 12:27.168 --> 12:29.771 for the relief and recovery efforts. 12:29.771 --> 12:32.815 I'll reiterate that what we are essentially asking for 12:32.815 --> 12:35.482 in terms of the immediate relief 12:35.647 --> 12:38.564 is $4.6 billion in certain programs 12:39.534 --> 12:41.951 that I can discuss, and later 12:42.306 --> 12:45.170 with the immediate liquidity needs, 12:45.170 --> 12:48.411 working with treasury so that we can have $5 billion 12:48.411 --> 12:49.744 in that context. 12:52.463 --> 12:54.463 In terms of the updates, 12:56.106 --> 12:56.939 ATMs are, 12:59.035 --> 13:01.290 the number of ATMs has risen. 13:01.290 --> 13:02.707 We have 612 ATMs. 13:03.702 --> 13:05.535 We have 179 banks open 13:06.134 --> 13:08.467 and 145 coops that are open. 13:09.483 --> 13:12.650 77% of the supermarkets are open. 13:12.661 --> 13:15.646 All of the sites and places of those supermarkets 13:15.646 --> 13:17.729 can be seen in status.pr. 13:18.638 --> 13:22.805 78% of the gas stations are open as well in Puerto Rico, 13:23.350 --> 13:27.517 and in terms of the quantity of barrels that we have 13:27.530 --> 13:31.530 of diesel and gasoline, we had a slight decrease 13:32.856 --> 13:35.689 in diesel of about 30,000 barrels. 13:37.345 --> 13:40.466 That should be supplemented the day after tomorrow 13:40.466 --> 13:44.633 when we'll be receiving over almost 600,000 barrels 13:46.090 --> 13:48.923 of diesel, and gasoline reservoirs 13:50.235 --> 13:54.402 have increased by about 10,000 barrels of gasoline as well. 13:55.439 --> 13:58.267 There are 22 municipalities working together 13:58.267 --> 14:01.850 with our general services agency to provide 14:03.112 --> 14:06.284 gas and diesel to all of the municipalities, 14:06.284 --> 14:09.284 and yesterday we deployed 30 tankers 14:10.191 --> 14:12.832 to different municipalities to provide much needed diesel 14:12.832 --> 14:15.146 for the basic needs and functions. 14:15.146 --> 14:16.766 Today we'll be repeating 14:16.766 --> 14:19.266 such a tour around the island, 14:20.443 --> 14:23.957 so our objective is within a span of about three days 14:23.957 --> 14:26.908 we're covering the whole island, giving those municipalities 14:26.908 --> 14:31.075 the access to diesel so that they can operate appropriately. 14:32.539 --> 14:35.789 In terms of healthcare I already stated 14:36.121 --> 14:40.090 that the emergency prescription program will be in place. 14:40.090 --> 14:42.599 That will give access to those people 14:42.599 --> 14:44.901 that don't have healthcare coverage 14:44.901 --> 14:49.068 to have access to medicine and other instruments as well. 14:49.453 --> 14:53.049 The USS Gulfer is deployed on a mission to Aguadia 14:53.049 --> 14:54.049 as we speak. 14:54.587 --> 14:57.823 They have received patients from Rider Hospital 14:57.823 --> 15:00.656 in Numacao and Meronita in Caguas. 15:01.452 --> 15:04.285 So there will be constant mobility 15:07.126 --> 15:11.221 from (speaking Spanish) of this boat, 15:11.221 --> 15:14.186 and I remind you that it has the capacity of having 15:14.186 --> 15:17.019 about 1,000 patients and 250 beds. 15:18.831 --> 15:21.859 Vector control efforts have gone to 18 municipalities, 15:21.859 --> 15:25.026 immunology programs 19 municipalities, 15:25.373 --> 15:28.650 dialysis centers that are related to the government, 15:28.650 --> 15:31.233 we have 43 of 48 that are open, 15:32.423 --> 15:35.090 private sector dialysis centers, 15:35.596 --> 15:37.540 we still don't have much visibility 15:37.540 --> 15:39.290 on how many are open. 15:41.005 --> 15:43.676 In terms of the total number of hospitals, 15:43.676 --> 15:46.343 we have 67 that are operational, 15:46.498 --> 15:48.831 39 with energy of their own, 15:50.156 --> 15:52.558 and they are within 10 municipalities. 15:52.558 --> 15:55.014 Of course, some of these may have dropped off 15:55.014 --> 15:59.181 after the power generation of substation six in San Juan 16:01.803 --> 16:02.886 fell through. 16:03.390 --> 16:06.640 Nine DMAT teams are across Puerto Rico, 16:06.645 --> 16:10.812 and 71% of pharmacies are open to the people, 16:10.921 --> 16:13.954 they can identify as well in status.pr 16:13.954 --> 16:16.753 what those pharmacies are so that people can get 16:16.753 --> 16:20.074 to their places, and again remind you that 16:20.074 --> 16:23.241 if you don't have access to healthcare 16:23.477 --> 16:25.977 now with the emergency program 16:26.444 --> 16:29.748 you can have access to medicine in Puerto Rico. 16:29.748 --> 16:33.081 We have the seven hospitals that remain, 16:33.597 --> 16:36.764 and in terms of security and resources 16:39.443 --> 16:41.026 we have over 12,000 16:44.176 --> 16:48.009 or almost 13,000 DOD personnel in Puerto Rico, 16:50.635 --> 16:51.552 over 3,000, 16:54.798 --> 16:58.965 over 4,000 Puerto Rico National Guard and EMAX together 16:59.479 --> 17:02.444 and there's an expectation of 3,000 more 17:02.444 --> 17:05.147 to come to Puerto Rico within the next 17:05.147 --> 17:07.147 couple of weeks as well. 17:07.303 --> 17:11.127 So in terms of security there is an increased effort, 17:11.127 --> 17:13.877 over 25 states are playing a role 17:14.303 --> 17:16.470 and FEMA continues to hire 17:17.784 --> 17:21.951 Puerto Ricans to be part of this recovery effort as well. 17:23.210 --> 17:26.400 In terms of telecoms, we are at 52%. 17:26.400 --> 17:30.567 That is increases significantly from 44% yesterday. 17:31.242 --> 17:34.659 We have 465 of the antennas up from 1,600 17:37.218 --> 17:41.051 and we have 16 SATCALs all around Puerto Rico, 17:41.785 --> 17:44.785 (speaking Spanish), 17:52.248 --> 17:55.486 and today there will be a SATCAL installed 17:55.486 --> 17:58.819 in Utwala which has been one of the more 17:58.906 --> 18:00.656 isolated communities. 18:00.719 --> 18:04.886 So keeps on moving, and again our objective of the week 18:05.076 --> 18:07.440 was to have 45%, we're at 52, 18:07.440 --> 18:11.190 so we are over our expectation on that front. 18:13.094 --> 18:14.712 In terms of refugees and shelters, 18:14.712 --> 18:18.045 we have 116 shelters and 6,908 refugees. 18:20.625 --> 18:23.296 Our objective was to have 130 shelters working, 18:23.296 --> 18:24.796 that was achieved, 18:29.262 --> 18:31.903 and we'll continue on with the efforts of consolidating 18:31.903 --> 18:34.786 different shelters and starting to put 18:34.786 --> 18:38.953 some of those refugees to different temporary housing. 18:40.129 --> 18:43.796 In terms of ports, flights increased as well 18:44.257 --> 18:47.840 from 57 of the day before and 65 yesterday, 18:49.054 --> 18:52.471 so there is a continuous notable increase 18:52.633 --> 18:54.793 in terms of flights coming to Puerto Rico 18:54.793 --> 18:56.873 and although we still don't have the information 18:56.873 --> 19:00.706 in terms of container deployment we remind you 19:00.715 --> 19:04.378 that yesterday we had 88% of the normal fluctuation 19:04.378 --> 19:05.795 within the ports. 19:07.129 --> 19:08.546 There has been a. 19:10.819 --> 19:13.716 We also want to make the announcement 19:13.716 --> 19:16.966 that parts of the ports in Puerto Nuevo 19:17.912 --> 19:20.329 were closed, a precautionary. 19:20.552 --> 19:23.729 Within this morning we are still getting more information 19:23.729 --> 19:27.229 from the coast guard, but this seems to be 19:27.369 --> 19:30.286 a temporary close down of the ports 19:30.898 --> 19:33.039 and they will affect some of the ports 19:33.039 --> 19:36.505 but they won't effect, for example, the Crowley port. 19:36.505 --> 19:38.505 So that is still ongoing 19:38.752 --> 19:41.878 and we are awaiting more information from the coast guard 19:41.878 --> 19:45.378 to verify what is going on with the ports. 19:46.789 --> 19:50.123 In terms of access to water and aqueducts, 19:50.123 --> 19:54.123 we have 56.87% of the clients with service. 19:57.557 --> 20:01.307 Just to give you a more granular description, 20:01.656 --> 20:04.010 most of the areas are close to 70%, 20:04.010 --> 20:08.177 metro, the south, and the east are close to 70% 20:08.458 --> 20:11.118 of the clients with water and so forth. 20:11.118 --> 20:15.285 The region with the least amount of access is the north, 20:16.218 --> 20:18.051 which we'll focus our efforts, 20:18.051 --> 20:21.468 they have 23% of clients with water. 20:23.201 --> 20:26.727 And our objective was to get to 60% in the week, 20:26.727 --> 20:28.060 we are at 56.87, 20:31.164 --> 20:34.747 and within the month over 80% as well. 20:37.081 --> 20:40.414 In terms of energy production, I already 20:41.762 --> 20:45.666 announced that there was a significant fall down, 20:45.666 --> 20:48.499 so that puts us back at 6.5%. 20:49.051 --> 20:52.462 Of course our expectation is to revitalize and restart 20:52.462 --> 20:56.629 that during the day, but again, I want to reiterate 20:56.631 --> 20:59.987 that this points to the fragility of our system 20:59.987 --> 21:03.403 and that when we are considering rebuilding 21:03.403 --> 21:06.466 such a system, it can not be built the same way 21:06.466 --> 21:09.766 as it was before, we need to build stronger and better 21:09.766 --> 21:11.660 than what it was before. 21:11.660 --> 21:15.660 In terms of food delivery, FEMA keeps on working 21:16.341 --> 21:20.392 to distribute resources to different municipalities. 21:20.392 --> 21:23.975 Yesterday they had 241,000 liters of water, 21:28.390 --> 21:31.473 278,000 portions of food distributed, 21:32.698 --> 21:34.738 and to the centers of distribution, 21:34.738 --> 21:36.665 these were to the municipalities, 21:36.665 --> 21:40.665 to the center of distribution there were 380,000 21:40.893 --> 21:44.643 portions of food and 259,000 liters of water. 21:44.944 --> 21:49.111 Today there is an expected boat coming to Puerto Rico 21:50.513 --> 21:54.180 with an additional 928,000 portions of food, 21:56.117 --> 21:58.950 and tomorrow another one with 768. 21:59.697 --> 22:02.530 So yesterday the total of missions 22:04.142 --> 22:06.475 rose to 139 missions of food 22:07.521 --> 22:09.743 distributed across Puerto Rico. 22:09.743 --> 22:12.326 Amongst those, seven efforts by 22:13.448 --> 22:15.865 the Office of the First Lady, 22:16.283 --> 22:19.866 several efforts by FEMA, 21 efforts by FEMA 22:22.166 --> 22:23.734 and the National Guard, 22:23.734 --> 22:26.276 other state agencies, and of course 22:26.276 --> 22:28.223 the non for profit sector. 22:28.223 --> 22:32.390 Today, right now, we have at least 57 of these efforts 22:32.559 --> 22:35.882 going on, we still don't have the RSA pickups 22:35.882 --> 22:38.632 or the Red Cross within our tabs, 22:39.705 --> 22:41.939 but certainly, as has been the case, 22:41.939 --> 22:45.689 we expect that number to go significantly up, 22:46.411 --> 22:48.578 higher than the thousands. 22:48.967 --> 22:51.717 So that's essentially the update. 22:52.209 --> 22:53.879 I'll say it briefly in Spanish, 22:53.879 --> 22:56.053 at least I'll focus on the announcements in Spanish 22:56.053 --> 22:59.053 and then we can take some questions. 22:59.697 --> 23:02.614 (speaking Spanish) 33:32.431 --> 33:36.181 (announcer speaking Spanish) 33:39.291 --> 33:42.708 (woman speaking Spanish) 34:01.154 --> 34:04.071 (speaking Spanish) 35:25.574 --> 35:29.741 - [Announcer] One question for media outlet Bloomberg. 35:30.898 --> 35:32.648 - [Man] Good morning. 35:32.904 --> 35:36.154 I was wondering if you could talk about 35:36.384 --> 35:38.975 the difference between the two packages, 35:38.975 --> 35:42.546 the liquidity package and the eventual $5 billion 35:42.546 --> 35:44.546 or $4.6 billion request. 35:44.707 --> 35:46.268 What mechanisms does that encompass, 35:46.268 --> 35:48.307 would that be immediate, loans, 35:48.307 --> 35:50.949 or what are the differences between the two? 35:50.949 --> 35:54.949 - Right, so we're focusing right now on congress 35:55.449 --> 35:57.116 on certain packages. 35:58.317 --> 36:01.567 So for example, the $4.6 billion number 36:03.562 --> 36:07.729 has to do with community development block grants, 36:07.985 --> 36:10.735 community disaster loan programs, 36:11.113 --> 36:14.756 social services block grants, emergency relief programs, 36:14.756 --> 36:18.430 disaster loans programs, commodity assistant programs, 36:18.430 --> 36:20.262 and state educational agencies 36:20.262 --> 36:21.900 and hurricane recovery. 36:21.900 --> 36:24.983 So based on those accessible programs 36:25.414 --> 36:29.581 we are soliciting the immediate relief of $4.6 billion. 36:29.640 --> 36:33.336 The liquidity issue, we're working directly with 36:33.336 --> 36:36.490 the treasury, the United States Treasury, 36:36.490 --> 36:39.603 so that we can find mechanisms that will allow us 36:39.603 --> 36:43.770 to have access to about $5 billion, $4 to 5 billion 36:44.089 --> 36:46.506 in liquidity for Puerto Rico, 36:46.958 --> 36:49.064 so they're separate efforts, 36:49.064 --> 36:53.173 we want to focus on the immediate relief with congress 36:53.173 --> 36:57.340 which are storm centric effects that have to do with 36:57.562 --> 37:01.729 infrastructure programs and with potentiating our economy. 37:02.543 --> 37:06.151 - [Announcer] One question for media outlet Fox. 37:06.151 --> 37:07.297 - [Woman] Hello. 37:07.297 --> 37:10.152 Could you clarify in terms of the power system, 37:10.152 --> 37:14.319 is the plan to rebuild the grid on the entire island? 37:14.910 --> 37:17.553 - So this is one of the things that we need 37:17.553 --> 37:19.303 to start considering. 37:20.968 --> 37:23.869 My position is that we can not rebuild 37:23.869 --> 37:25.869 the same old grid again. 37:26.459 --> 37:29.376 It is evident that if we rebuild it 37:31.141 --> 37:34.753 it won't be resilient and we'll have the same limitations 37:34.753 --> 37:37.295 in terms of its efficiency, in terms of its strength 37:37.295 --> 37:40.666 and wherewithal to withstand and mitigate 37:40.666 --> 37:42.123 some of this impact. 37:42.123 --> 37:45.456 So our petition, and we have identified, 37:46.012 --> 37:48.327 we are identifying certain mechanisms to make sure 37:48.327 --> 37:51.663 that while we are doing, part of it will be 37:51.663 --> 37:55.271 a rebuilding process, it needs to be an intelligent process 37:55.271 --> 37:56.828 so that we can mitigate 37:56.828 --> 37:59.661 problems that could be anticipated 38:00.977 --> 38:03.488 that we can get some private sector buy in, 38:03.488 --> 38:05.800 that we can get intelligent generation 38:05.800 --> 38:07.762 in different parts of Puerto Rico, 38:07.762 --> 38:09.222 and that is what we're asking for 38:09.222 --> 38:11.603 and there are certain venues, 38:11.603 --> 38:15.520 the Core of Engineers is tasked with helping us 38:16.751 --> 38:19.334 in an emergency rebuild effort, 38:19.714 --> 38:23.297 but there are other venues that we can use. 38:23.522 --> 38:27.689 FEMA, for example, has 15% mitigation cost effort 38:29.384 --> 38:31.717 that could be added to this, 38:31.832 --> 38:34.402 and we are making a plea as well, 38:34.402 --> 38:38.569 I guess a higher plea, to congress and to administration 38:39.248 --> 38:43.081 officials that if we don't get the flexibility 38:45.032 --> 38:48.282 to design a smart grid for Puerto Rico, 38:49.599 --> 38:52.772 an innovative grid, we're gonna be left with 38:52.772 --> 38:54.816 the same old vulnerable grid 38:54.816 --> 38:56.790 and whenever another storm comes 38:56.790 --> 39:00.290 we're just gonna have to rebuild it again. 39:01.727 --> 39:03.955 (announcer speaking Spanish) 39:03.955 --> 39:07.205 (man speaking Spanish) 39:47.376 --> 39:50.293 (speaking Spanish) 41:00.249 --> 41:03.499 (man speaking Spanish) 41:19.779 --> 41:22.696 (speaking Spanish) 41:55.967 --> 41:59.492 (announcer speaking Spanish) 41:59.492 --> 42:02.909 (woman speaking Spanish) 42:21.636 --> 42:24.553 (speaking Spanish) 44:21.139 --> 44:24.556 (woman speaking Spanish) 44:33.288 --> 44:36.205 (speaking Spanish) 45:02.652 --> 45:05.422 (announcer speaking Spanish) 45:05.422 --> 45:08.839 (woman speaking Spanish) 45:30.575 --> 45:33.492 (speaking Spanish) 48:27.390 --> 48:31.140 (announcer speaking Spanish) 48:31.485 --> 48:34.735 (man speaking Spanish) 48:47.699 --> 48:50.616 (speaking Spanish) 51:14.717 --> 51:17.700 - [Announcer] NPR, one question for media outlet. 51:17.700 --> 51:19.091 - [Woman] Hi, thank you. 51:19.091 --> 51:21.115 I'm a bit confused, maybe you can clarify. 51:21.115 --> 51:24.647 So the power outage that happened at the hospital 51:24.647 --> 51:26.072 was due to the power plant. 51:26.072 --> 51:26.905 - Yes. 51:27.062 --> 51:28.360 - [Woman] And that is all fixed now. 51:28.360 --> 51:30.382 - It's not fixed, it's being fixed. 51:30.382 --> 51:31.965 It's a byproduct of 51:33.452 --> 51:36.369 the substation number six fell down 51:38.351 --> 51:40.814 and they're trying to reenergize it again. 51:40.814 --> 51:43.065 So as soon as they reenergize it, the hospital, 51:43.065 --> 51:46.057 the airport, and other critical facilities will have power. 51:46.057 --> 51:48.123 - [Woman] Do you have an estimate of when that will happen? 51:48.123 --> 51:49.268 - During the day today. 51:49.268 --> 51:50.171 It'll happen at some point. 51:50.171 --> 51:51.891 - [Woman] And if you can address the accusations 51:51.891 --> 51:55.584 by the San Juan mayor that FEMA and the FEMA director 51:55.584 --> 51:58.616 pleads to that power is not being sent to the hospital 51:58.616 --> 52:01.560 and there is no water, and the accusations. 52:01.560 --> 52:05.727 - So I'll just state, again, that the hospitals are 52:05.999 --> 52:08.582 within a diesel providing loop, 52:08.900 --> 52:11.317 they have generators as well. 52:11.761 --> 52:15.928 Some of these events, because of the fragility of the system 52:15.941 --> 52:19.441 some of these power plants are gonna fail. 52:19.747 --> 52:23.307 That is the truth, that's why we need to be ready. 52:23.307 --> 52:25.804 We need to have diesel in our generators, 52:25.804 --> 52:27.487 they need to be activated. 52:27.487 --> 52:29.820 Centromedico has a generator 52:30.715 --> 52:33.464 that as soon as the power was gone 52:33.464 --> 52:36.381 it kick started, so in that respect 52:37.486 --> 52:39.813 I can tell you that within the loop 52:39.813 --> 52:43.671 even though we have 20 some hospitals that are energized 52:43.671 --> 52:45.776 we also have them within the loop 52:45.776 --> 52:47.689 to make sure that the generators are ready 52:47.689 --> 52:50.701 because as you can see the system has failed. 52:50.701 --> 52:53.971 We'll let Alejandro answer the question regarding 52:53.971 --> 52:55.221 immediate help. 52:56.793 --> 52:59.318 - We have been providing on a regular basis 52:59.318 --> 53:02.318 as part of our cycle to provide fuel 53:02.525 --> 53:05.424 to the hospital in San Juan and to all 53:05.424 --> 53:08.180 the hospitals in San Juan, so I don't understand 53:08.180 --> 53:10.770 that concern because it's part of our cycle 53:10.770 --> 53:13.475 that on a regular basis, and we have the evidence 53:13.475 --> 53:17.642 that we have been providing fuel to those generators 53:17.864 --> 53:19.281 in the hospitals. 53:19.512 --> 53:22.982 Related to water and food, we are provided on a regular 53:22.982 --> 53:26.889 basis also food and water to the municipality of San Juan, 53:26.889 --> 53:29.623 and we also have the evidence that we have been 53:29.623 --> 53:32.782 replenishing food and water to the municipality 53:32.782 --> 53:36.148 on a regular basis and we can show it to you. 53:36.148 --> 53:37.815 - [Woman] Thank you. 53:39.052 --> 53:40.052 - Thank you.