Eight days after Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico with devastating force, some relief and supplies are beginning to arrive in the capital of San Juan. However, the Associated Press reports that many on the island are “still waiting for help from anyone from the federal or Puerto Rican government. But the scope of the devastation is so broad, and the relief effort so concentrated in San Juan, that many people from outside the capital say they have received little to no help.” Puerto Rico’s governor says he intends to ask for more than a billion dollars in federal assistance.
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Read moreDamaged homes and downed trees sit atop hills near Corozal, Puerto Rico, on September 25, 2017, in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. #
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Read morePeople sit in their storm-damaged apartment after the window was blown out by the winds of Hurricane Maria on September 25, 2017, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. #
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Read moreResidents in the La Perla community in Old San Juan survey their battered residences after Hurricane Maria on September 25, 2017. #
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Read morePeople sit on both sides of a destroyed bridge, which crossed over the San Lorenzo de Morovis River, in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Morovis, Puerto Rico, on September 27, 2017. #
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Read moreMarta Sostre Vazquez reacts as she starts to wade into the San Lorenzo Morovis River with her family after the bridge was swept away by Hurricane Maria in Morovis, Puerto Rico, on September 27, 2017. The family was returning to their home after visiting family on the other side. #
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Read moreRuby Rodriguez, 8, looks back at her mother as she crosses the San Lorenzo Morovis River with her family after the bridge was swept away on September 27, 2017. #
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Read moreA toppled electronic billboard lies atop a house one week after the passage of Hurricane Maria in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on September 27, 2017. #
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Read moreMembers of Massachusetts Task Force 1 conduct a search operation in Yauco, Puerto Rico, on September 25, 2017. #
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Read moreA U.S. Marine with Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, uses a chainsaw to cut a tree blocking a road as part of Hurricane Maria relief efforts in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, on September 27, 2017. The 26th MEU is supporting the Federal Emergency Management Agency and local authorities in Puerto Rico. #
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Read moreResidents of the La Perla community in Old San Juan comfort one another as the community recovers from Hurricane Maria on September 25, 2017. #
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Read morePeople wait in line for gas in Corozal, Puerto Rico, on September 27, 2017. #
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Read moreAn electrical crew attempts to repair power lines that were knocked over by Hurricane Maria on September 27, 2017, in Corozal, Puerto Rico. #
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Read moreA damaged Puerto Rican national flag spray painted with the words "Together as One" hangs from the facade of a business, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on September 27, 2017. The relief effort from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico has so far been concentrated largely in San Juan, and many outside the capital say they've received little or no help. #
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Read morePeople wait in line to use an ATM at Banco Popular as they deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Maria on September 26, 2017, in San Juan. #
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Read moreLa Plata Lake Dam, viewed from above, on September 25, 2017, in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. #
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Read moreSister Gloria Flores looks out from a balcony of the Hermanitas de los Ancianos Desamparados facility, which cares for the elderly, on September 26, 2017, in San Juan. Sister Flores hopes aid—including fuel for their generators, food, and medicine—arrives soon, as they care for their more than 195 elderly patients after Hurricane Maria devastated the island. #
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Read moreU.S. Navy Landing Craft, Utility 1657, assigned to the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge, exits the well deck of the USS Kearsarge carrying Marine Corps personnel and equipment in support of Hurricane Maria relief operations in the Caribbean Sea on September 24, 2017. #
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Read moreA woman and her grandson look at the destroyed wharf of Punta Santiago, Humacao, in the east of Puerto Rico, on September 27, 2017. #
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Read moreCars drive down a roadway through damaged trees and power lines in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, on September 26, 2017. #
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Read moreA stuffed animal lies in the ruins of the home of Jose Garcia Vicente in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Aibonito, Puerto Rico, on September 25, 2017. #
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Read moreYolanda Negron and her daughter Yolymar Bernard salvage what they can from their home that was destroyed by Hurricane Maria in Corozal, Puerto Rico, on September 27, 2017. #
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Read moreA man walks through a flooded street in San Juan on September 25, 2017. #
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Read moreHilda Colon wakes up after sleeping in a shelter set up at the Pedrin Zorrilla coliseum in San Juan on September 25, 2017. #
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Read moreDamaged houses are seen after the area was hit by Hurricane Maria in Canovanas, Puerto Rico, on September 26, 2017. #
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Read moreIrma Maldanado stands with her parrot Sussury in what is left of her home that was destroyed by Hurricane Maria in Corozal, Puerto Rico, on September 27, 2017. #
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Read morePeople wait in line as they hope to fill up their vehicles with gas in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria on September 27, 2017, in Corozal, Puerto Rico. #
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Read moreA telephone technician tries to repair the phone lines in Punta Santiago, Humacao, in the east of Puerto Rico, on September 27, 2017. #
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Read moreTwo girls play in the Cuyon River in Coamo, Puerto Rico, when their family had come to the river to bathe and wash their clothes, on September 27, 2017. #
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Read moreEvan Mandino, right, sits with neighbors on a couch outside their destroyed homes as the sun sets in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, on September 26, 2017. #
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Read moreA resident bails water from a flooded home in Catano, Puerto Rico, on September 27, 2017. #
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Read moreA house damaged by Hurricane Maria stands in Naranjito, Puerto Rico, on September 27, 2017. #
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Read morePeople wait in a line to check flights at Luis Munoz Marin International Airport, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on September 26, 2017, as some flights are still being rescheduled for one or two weeks. #
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Read moreDowned trees rest on tombs at the cemetery of Lares in Puerto Rico on September 26, 2017. #
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Read morePeople fill containers with water from a tanker truck in Canovanas, Puerto Rico, on September 26, 2017. #
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Read moreMaria Olivieri removes a tree branch from her backyard a week after the passage of Hurricane Maria in Aibonito, Puerto Rico, on September 27, 2017. #
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