President Trump on Friday continued to praise his administration for doing "an incredible job" responding to Puerto Rico's devastation, though millions remain without power and clean water nine days after Hurricane Maria. "I am begging anyone who can hear us to save us from dying," Carmen Yulin Cruz said into the cameras. White House officials have pushed back hard against allegations that the administration's Puerto Rico response hasn't measured up to that in Texas and Florida after hurricanes Harvey and Irma. Trump said there would have to be talks between Washington and indebted Puerto Rico about how to pay the expenses — a suggestion he did not make about Texas and Florida. “In the meantime," Trump said, "we’ve saved a lot of lives.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 29, 2017 22:08 UTC