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| This is Michael Zimmerman for Infowars.com. | |
| I'm here with Ruben Obed, who you may remember from our We Love Our Somali cover song contest. | |
| He lives here in Dorado, Puerto Rico, which was recently badly hit by the hurricane. | |
| And we've actually been able to bring you some supplies here for your family, your neighbors around here. | |
| But also, tell us a little bit about what you've experienced, because you just got cell signal back the first couple days. | |
| You still don't have power. | |
| Yeah, well, the cell signal is actually only an AT&T phone that I have. | |
| My main phone that I use, there's no signal whatsoever or data. | |
| The day after the hurricane, I was actually able to do a live stream on Facebook. | |
| But then from that day on, I've had no signal, no electricity, no water. | |
| The water comes back and forth occasionally. | |
| But it's been very hard. | |
| The stores, they have no ATM service. | |
| So if you have money in the bank, it's useless. | |
| You can't withdraw cash. | |
| What is open is cash. | |
| The only stores that really open and have... | |
| Credit card services like Walgreens and CVS. I've been hitting them every single day. | |
| There's no ice anywhere. | |
| Water is totally scarce. | |
| Drinking water at the supermarkets, there's no water, no gas. | |
| Here in Puerto Rico, we don't have line gas. | |
| It's mainly tank gas. | |
| That's been scarce as well. | |
| The gasoline lines for cars, now they've dropped down, but a few days ago, my kid's mother, she was in line about seven hours just to put $20 of gas in her car. | |
| The lines are that... | |
| It's been really, really hard. | |
| Earlier, I was talking to my next-door neighbor, and wherever his income comes, it comes into his ATM card, and he has a cooperative. | |
| So what happens is there's no signal for him. | |
| So he's struggling trying to figure out how to do things if he can't withdraw money from his account. | |
| So it's been really, really hard. | |
| And then the supermarkets, the generators have been blowing up. | |
| Back and forth, you know, the supermarket opened up, generator messed up, Walgreens generator messed up, they fixed it the next day, and it's just been like that. | |
| So it's a slow process is what we're seeing right now. | |
| And a lot of people have been, were going out and attacking President Trump and his response to the disaster here, even though he immediately sent FEMA, he sent all these aid ships. | |
| There was this whole issue. | |
| I don't know if you've been able to keep up with the news because of the lack of signal, but the truckers, there were thousands of containers at the ports and the truckers wouldn't bring them out to the different areas. | |
| But then the mayor of San Juan and others, all these Democrats, were attacking our president. | |
| Because of that. | |
| What do you think of that? | |
| I'm going to be really honest with you, and this you might not hear in the mainstream media. | |
| Here in Puerto Rico, there has always been an issue with truckers. | |
| You know, sometimes they paralyze the whole country because they want raises, because they want this and that. | |
| I don't know if that is what's going on, or maybe they're thinking, you know, let's put pressure and capitalize on this hurricane. | |
| That might be the case. | |
| I personally am a Trump supporter, and I know for a fact that Trump has sent the help, you know, but why is it that from San Juan to Dorado, which is a 25-minute drive, we have not seen any help? | |
| Really? | |
| None. | |
| I have not seen Red Cross here. | |
| I have not seen... | |
| The only thing I saw, the emergency services sent out a truck with water one time. | |
| I don't know if they've gone to the other sides of the town, but there's been no help. | |
| I have not seen... | |
| Any of the churches have any... | |
| Nobody. | |
| I mean, literally no one. | |
| And I'm out there every day. | |
| And I'm going back and forth. | |
| So people are just, you know, struggling with what they have open. | |
| The stores, you know, little local stores and whatever cash money they have on them. | |
| There was one day that a neighbor from the front, he gave me a bag of MRE meals. | |
| I said, meatballs. | |
| And I said... | |
| Are you a veteran or something? | |
| And he said, no, there was somebody, Red Cross, up the street, handing that out. | |
| That was never announced. | |
| Nobody knew about it. | |
| You just have to be in the right spot at the right time in order to get any aid. | |
| Yes, there has not been any aid. | |
| At least, I'm talking about this town. | |
| I don't want to... | |
| It's a decent sized island. | |
| Lots of smaller communities across the island. | |
| But like you were saying, this is only 30 minutes from San Juan. | |
| We were able to fly in today, hop in a vehicle, and come straight here with goods that we had bought in the Dominican Republic this morning to bring you. | |
| And it's been three weeks, and we have not seen any help for other people. | |
| The FEMA thing was... | |
| It was mentioned. | |
| And, you know, there was a municipal truck with speakers that announced how to go about that process. | |
| In that aspect, yes, you know, they did get that done. | |
| I didn't personally go. | |
| But in terms of, like, help, like, food and water, practical things, nothing. | |
| So people are really depending upon the stores at this point, which, like you were saying, not all of them are open. | |
| But the main problem is they don't have power. | |
| So people can't use their credit cards. | |
| The banks are closed. | |
| And so, you know, there's goods available at the stores. | |
| And I'm sure the selection's limited there, too, even. | |
| But it's just difficult all around to get supplies and get things right now. | |
| Very, very difficult. | |
| And the thing is also, it's been almost three weeks. | |
| I have not seen one electric company truck. | |
| I don't know what the progress is. | |
| I know they've cleaned up a lot. | |
| You're going to see in the footage that I gave you. | |
| I took that footage the day after. | |
| So you see all the trees. | |
| And they have made a lot of progress in terms of cleanup. | |
| In terms of the electrical service, I have not seen one truck out there. | |
| So, we don't know. | |
| I have no idea. | |
| It's going to be a silver cover, especially when it comes to the power, because the power company here was already bankrupt months ago before the storm even hit. | |
| So, you know, now President Trump's saying he wants to work with Congress to see if we can get, you know, these debts forgiven so that these companies can get back on their feet and get power service restored. | |
| So that's what's been going on, at least in the U.S. side of things, because it is difficult. | |
| You know, if they don't have employees coming to work to repair the power lines, it's not going to get fixed anytime soon. | |
| Exactly. | |
| And here, Dorado, this... | |
| This particular area is actually, I think it's like 27 meters above flooding, so we really didn't have that type of damage here. | |
| But an adjacent town called Maguayo, where my cousin lives, he was telling me that the water from the river came so high and so strong that his mother was trapped inside the house, and he couldn't open the door, so he had to break the window to pull his 80-year-old mother out of the window. | |
| And they stayed in that area and they have another house on top. | |
| So they stayed there while the water receded. | |
| But this is a 10 minute drive from here, not even. | |
| And so I don't know, I heard that the other township, Tuabaja, which is right next door, also is like catastrophe. | |
| So at least this little town of Dorado to me seems pretty blessed in comparison with the updates that I've gotten from other people, from other areas nearby. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| So we're going to see what else we can do here to help out in Puerto Rico. | |
| Also, you know, get the word out about things. | |
| But we're happy to be able to bring stuff to you, Ruben. | |
| Good to finally meet you in person after, you know, you've corresponded back and forth a lot with Rob Dew and others at the office. | |
| And we've had you on the show before, too. | |
| So it's good to meet you in person and good to be able to help you out. | |
| It's always an honor to deal with you guys, man. | |
| It's really an honor and I'm really happy and I'm really grateful for all the help that you guys brought me today. | |
| I really, really appreciate it a lot. | |
| Thank you for watching. | |
| Thank you, Ruben. | |
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