Only 5% of Puerto Rico has electricity on eve of Trump visit
By Bruce Golding
October 2, 2017 | 10:01pm
Nearly all of Puerto Rico remained blacked out Monday .. and the US Energy Department offered a grim forecast for the restoration of electricity.
Little more than 5 percent of electrical customers had service .. with the head of its power utility saying that number would rise to just 15 percent over the next two weeks.
Food and drinking water also remained in short supply, and the Federal Communications Commission said more than 88 percent of cellphone towers were out of service .. virtually unchanged since Saturday.
Gov. Ricardo Rosselló said the government was in danger of running out of money because the economy ground to a halt in the wake of Hurricane Maria ...
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