IT'S ALL GOOD! Puerto Rico is a "good news story" WH's Duke and Bossert

[underpants]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/28/politics/elaine-duke-puerto-rico-response/index.html

"I am very satisfied," acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke told reporters outside the White House. "I know it's a hard storm to recover from but the amount of progress that's been made, and I really would appreciate any support that we get. I know it is really a good news story in terms of our ability to reach people and the limited number of deaths that have taken place in such a devastating hurricane."

"What I will tell you is that we are mobilizing and marshaling the resources of the United States of America in a way that is absolutely professional, fast, and adequate to meet the needs," Bossert said alongside Duke.

"This is textbook and it's been done well," Bossert added later from the White House podium.

Asked to clarify her comment that the government's response to the storm is a "good news story," Duke pointed to effective coordination between federal and local authorities and said there is "unification of command."

[Historic NY]

1. Its textbook if you follow what George Bush did in La.........

people died and drowned due to inaction. Only when General Honoré came on board did things begin to work.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/348656-general-who-oversaw-katrina-relief-rips-federal-response-to-harvey

[Girard442]

2. It's all up to the media now.

If they decide to run with all feel-good stories, the real nature of the situation will be erased from the public consciousness.

[MoonRiver]

3. Who ya gonna believe, ME or your lying eyes and ears?

[Old Vet]

4. Yeah, Saw that little bullshit play on words, Shes just out of touch

[left-of-center2012]

5. Trump: "People say we're doing an amazing job" (in Puerto Rico)

[ATL Ebony]

6. Well, it seems the mayor sees it in a very different light -- and, no dammit, "It's NOT All Good!"

[mercuryblues]

7. limited number of deaths?

WTF. Even though the death toll is low right now, once they reach hospitals who say their morgues are full that will change. Nor have they completely found people buried in the rubble. Some remote places have buried their dead already because there is no way to keep the bodies with no electricity for medical examiners to declare them dead.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article175955031.html

CPI sources in half a dozen hospitals said those bodies are piling up at the morgues of the 69 hospitals in Puerto Rico, of which 70 percent are not operating. The majority of the hospital morgues that provided information — including Doctor’s Center in Bayamón and Santurce, Pavía Hospital in Santurce, Manatí Medical Center, Dr. Pila in Ponce, Río Piedras Medical Center, Mayagüez Medical Center and the HIMA hospitals in Caguas and Bayamón — are at full capacity. Those hospitals are among the 18 that are partially operational.
CPI also has learned that the Institute of Forensic Sciences is also full of bodies and that 25 of those are hurricane victims. On Tuesday, the IFS reported that it had increased its storage capacity for bodies with a trailer that was obtained through The Morgue federal program.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article175955031.html#storylink=cpy

[Gothmog]

8. People are dying in Puerto Rico due to trump's incompetence