The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) says food, water, and other supplies have reached Puerto Rico a week after Hurricane Maria plowed through the island, and Gov. Ricardo Rosselló and shipping firms concur. Most of the 3.4 million Americans on Puerto Rico haven't gotten that aid, so CBS News correspondent David Begnaud went to find out what's happening. He found some 3,000 shipping containers sitting at the docks in San Juan, the capital, he said on Wednesday's CBS Evening News; most of them are filled with relief supplies, and some of them have been there since before Hurricane Irma hit, three weeks ago.
The problems, according to Rossellé and the shipping companies, are many and frustrating. Roads are still blocked or flooded around the island, truck drivers are tending to their damaged homes, their trucks were destroyed, they don't have fuel, or they're incommunicado because electricity and cellphone service are out across the U.S. territory, and the bus drivers Rosselló is trying to recruit to drive trucks in their stead have the same problems. In the meantime, nearly half the island doesn't have potable water, food and water are scare, "gasoline has become like liquid gold," Begnaud says, and there are lines for everything. You can watch his report below. Peter Weber
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