“The whole island has been affected,” Rodríguez-Andino says.
From Washington, President Donald Trump has praised FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, for a job well-done in Puerto Rico.
If the airport, the shipping ports and the roads are all damaged, she says the whole emergency response effort is going to slow down.
San Juan’s mayor, Carmen Yulín Cruz, told ABC News on Tuesday that FEMA officials in Puerto Rico are doing a good job. But she said people on the island are not getting what they need quickly enough.
“This is a complete rebuilding of an entire island of 3.4 million people” that is likely to take a decade or more to complete.