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BREAKING: What may be millions of water bottles. meant for victims of Hurricane Maria, have been sitting on a runway in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, since last year, according to @FEMA, which confirmed the news to me, late tonight, after pictures, posted today on social media, went viral.
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Puerto Ricans have been getting ridiculously high power bills from @AEEONLINE, in some cases, where consumers haven’t had power for months. Today, the governor declared "no citizen will pay for electricity that was not consumed during the emergency after Hurricane Maria.”
One woman who shared her story with me got a bill for 10 thousand dollars. It’s usually 160 a month.
Furthermore, @AEEONLINE
“can not charge for electricity produced by an emergency generator or other alternative generation method.”
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A Louisiana teacher was ruled “out of order” after telling her local school board it was “slap in the face to the teachers...” that the superintendent was getting a raise - that teacher was then strong armed by a marshal & led away in handcuffs
katc.com/story/37220702…
It’s unclear what happened between the time the teacher appeared to leave the meeting on her own, and when teacher was seen on the ground yelling, “what are you doing” at the marshal who was handcuffing her.
This video shows more of the encounter (I can't tell if it was edited in anyway)
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BREAKING: Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein denies a NYT report that he suggested last year he secretly record Trump to expose chaos in the administration. According to the Times Rosenstein also floated the idea of trying to remove Trump through the 25th Amendment. apnews.com/e84a4acdb42641…
Rod Rosenstein should know better than to joke about something like the 25th Amendment. Especially in the era of Trump.
McCabe memos say Rosenstein considered secretly recording Trump
wapo.st/2xqVlyE
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I have some new reporting on the millions bottles of FEMA water we found going to waste on a runway in Ceiba, Puerto Rico a year after Hurricane Maria forced millions of Americans to drink rain and creek water for MONTHS, triggering an outbreak of deadly leptospirosis...
At first, FEMA blamed Puerto Rican locals. “The way it works is we get the commodities to the state, the commonwealth….Obviously with Maria, we had not a supply issue, we had distribution issues,” they said on a conference call
So I went to see the Governor of Puerto Rico.
BILL WEIR:
How do you explain the-- the millions of bottles of water we found going to waste on that runway down at Ceibo?
GOV RICARDO ROSSELLO:
It's awful. It's awful. I-- I was-- when we got the news, it was very disturbing.
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In tweets, Pres. Trump rejects independent study that reports an estimated 2,975 people died in Puerto Rico in 5 months after Hurricane Maria; provides no evidence to discount study; declares, without evidence, that the higher death toll is a political ploy to make him look bad.
You can read the George Washington Univ. study here:

Ascertainment of the Estimated Excess Mortality from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. publichealth.gwu.edu/sites/default/…

You can read the Harvard Univ. study here:

Mortality in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
"People in Puerto Rico don’t deserve to have their pain questioned," Ricardo Rosselló, Puerto Rico's governor, says after President Trump's tweets about death toll; says of study's review that "I trust that such process was conducted adequately.” nbcnews.to/2x9XkYd
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Honestly you can keep your performative hashtag r*sistance reaction to the Hurricane Maria death toll. Most Americans haven’t cared about Puerto Rico for 120 years. Stop pretending you care now.
If it wasn’t for the fact Trump is a deeply unpopular president, most of you hashtag r*sistance folks wouldn’t speak up about the situation in Puerto Rico.
Do you care about the 2,975 lives we lost after Hurricane Maria? Well, you should also speak up against colonialism and how the U.S. has exploited Puerto Rico since 1898.
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10 trailers full of food, water, baby supplies donated for victims of Hurricane Maria were left to rot at elections office in Puerto Rico, they broke open & got infested by rats.
Cases of beans, water, Tylenol, other goods covered in rat, lizard droppings.
nyti.ms/2OorGw2
Goods donated by private entities/nonprofit, collected at elections commission offices, then distributed by National Guard
Once crisis subsided, goods were moved to trailers at election office, not delivered
Authorities say they been there a yr
1427 people died months after storm
Materials arrived after National Guard ended mission in May.
No explanation why no other agency distributed materials after that.
Head of the elections commission said he's been callin gov office, National Guard regularly inquiring about plans to distribute material, to no avail.
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