Royal Caribbean is using a cruise ship to help evacuate people from Puerto Rico and deliver needed supplies to Caribbean islands. 
 
 The cruise line announced on Tuesday that it is canceling its September 30 Adventure of the Seas trip so it can use the ship to help victims of Hurricane Maria. 
 
 The 3,800 passenger vessel will bring aid to San Juan, as well as St. Croix and St. Thomas, which were hit by both Maria and Hurricane Irma. Adventure arrives in San Juan on Wednesday and will take evacuees to Fort Lauderdale before returning to Puerto Rico next week. 
 
 The evacuations come as people remain stranded inside Puerto Rico's main airport, which is running on fumes. Only ten flights made it in and out of the San Juan airport on Tuesday, and just 18 are scheduled for Wednesday. Security checks are being done by hand because TSA equipment was damaged in the storm and airlines are having a hard time printing boarding passes. 
 
 Related: More flights leaving San Juan, but thousands are still stranded 
 
 A week after Maria hit, people are desperate for provisions. 
 
 Royal Caribbean is donating water, medical supplies and more to those in need. 
 
 The company started offering aid after Hurricane Irma devastated a wide swath of the Caribbean earlier this month. So far, it has helped evacuate more than 1,700 people and has promised to match donations of up to $1 million to help with Irma relief. 
 
 Other cruise lines are also pitching in. 
 
 Related: Who will help Puerto Rico? 
 
 Norwegian Cruise Line is working with the disaster relief group All Hands Volunteers to help rebuild schools and infrastructure in Puerto Rico. The company is donating $600,000 toward rebuilding efforts in the Florida Keys and the Caribbean, and has promised to match up to $1.25 million in donations to All Hands Volunteers and Happy Heart Fund's relief efforts from its guests, team members and partners. 
 
 Following Hurricane Irma, Carnival deployed 11 ships to bring supplies to islands in the Caribbean. The ships have been making stops in Antigua and St. Kitts to drop off deliveries to Barbuda and St. Maarten during regular cruise trips. 
 
 In addition to making donations, Carnival Corporation joined the Micky and Madeleine Arison Family Foundation and Miami HEAT Charitable Fund in pledging up to $10 million in funding and support for Florida and the Caribbean following Irma. ||||| LISTEN TO ARTICLE 6:33 SHARE THIS ARTICLE Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email 
 
 Thousands of cargo containers bearing millions of emergency meals and other relief supplies have been piling up on San Juan’s docks since Saturday. The mountains of materiel may not reach storm survivors for days. 
 
 Distributors for big-box companies and smaller retailers are unloading 4,000 20-foot containers full of necessities like food, water and soap this week at a dock in Puerto Rico’s capital operated by Crowley Maritime Corp. In the past few days, Tote Maritime’s terminal has taken the equivalent of almost 3,000. Even with moves to ease shipping to the island, like the Trump administration’s waiver of the Jones Act on Thursday, the facilities have become choke points in the effort to aid survivors of Hurricane Maria. 
 
 A vehicle drives through streets filled with floodwater in San Juan. Photographer: Alex Wroblewski/Bloomberg 
 
 “There are plenty of ships and plenty of cargo to come into the island,” said Mark Miller, a spokesman for Crowley, based in Jacksonville, Florida. “From there, that’s where the supply chain breaks down -- getting the goods from the port to the people on the island who need them.” 
 
 About 30 minutes before Wednesday’s 7 p.m. curfew, there were few signs of life at the Crowley port besides circling bats. The ground was muddy and the chain-link fence protecting the containers listed to the side. Without street or traffic lights, the area was dark, except for one illuminated crane holding a yellow container waiting to be set down in a row of its blue and red fellows. 
 
 ‘Biggest Challenge’ 
 
 The race to move the boxes could mean life or death. The island of 3.4 million is in the throes of a burgeoning humanitarian crisis, without electricity, mobile-phone service or clean water. Puerto Rico’s power grid went dark during the hottest season of year and may stay down for weeks or months. Officials and residents warn of disease without access to clean water. 
 
 Residents wait for gas in the Miranda neighborhood of San Juan. Photographer: Alex Wroblewski/Bloomberg 
 
 The devastation is the result of the third deadly hurricane within the past month to confront the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Defense Department. 
 
 “You have FEMA personnel spread thin, you’ve got DOD personnel spread thin,” said Senator James Lankford, a Republican from Oklahoma. “Puerto Rico is the biggest challenge of all of them. It’s obliterated their ports, their airports, their infrastructure, their electricity, and supplies need to go by boats. It’s a very challenging situation.” 
 
 A Crowley cargo ship at Isla Grande terminal in San Juan on Sept. 27. Photographer: Alex Wroblewski/Bloomberg 
 
 The recovery has lagged due to what Governor Ricardo Rossello on Thursday called the “total collapse” of power infrastructure. 
 
 Federal aid is beginning to flow, with Marines and Seabee engineers assessing damage and clearing roads. In addition to activation of 1,460 members of the National Guard, the governors of New York and New Jersey are sending emergency teams. 
 
 There are more than 10,000 federal personnel on the island, including 7,200 troops, Thomas Bossert, President Donald Trump’s homeland security adviser, said Thursday at the White House. The Army Corps of Engineers has taken over efforts to restore power, he said, including bringing fuel for generators and getting it where it’s needed. 
 
 Rossello said 33 hospitals are functioning, 170 shelters open and there are 11 aid-distribution centers The U.S. government has now shipped 4 million meals and 1.59 million gallons of water. Rosello said 2 million more gallons are expected to come in days. 
 
 Domestic firms have moved 9,500 containers to Puerto Rico, according to the American Maritime Partnership. Early Thursday, six tankers holding almost 76,000 gallons of fuels like gasoline and diesel were anchored in the waters outside the island, Bloomberg vessel-tracking data show. 
 
 "The Federal Government has responded to our petitions to treat this as an unprecedented event and they are doing so," Rossello said. "This is a united front, and we are working together and using the resources that the federal government and local state governments are sending to be able to pass this emergency and put a baseline of stability and put a path forward to building a stronger, more resilient Puerto Rico." 
 
 Driverless Trucks 
 
 Trucks are ready to be loaded with the goods and precious diesel for backup generators, but workers aren’t around to drive. Instead, they’re caring for families and cleaning up flood damage -- and contending with the curfew. 
 
 A woman walks past the destroyed wharf of Punta Santiago, Humacao, on Sept. 27. Photographer: Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images 
 
 The buildings that would receive supplies are destroyed and without electricity, Miller said. The transport companies that have staff available and diesel on hand encounter downed poles and power lines while navigating 80,000-pound tractor-trailers on delicate washed-out roads. 
 
 “It’s one thing to move a little car through there,” Miller said. “It’s another to move a semi truck.” 
 
 Russel L. Honore, a retired Army lieutenant general who took over the federal response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, said the efforts in Puerto Rico require what he called "expeditionary logistics" -- ships, aircraft and trucks that can move goods onto and around the island. 
 
 "The only people with that are the U.S. military," Honore said in a phone interview Wednesday. "We need a military commander to run it." 
 
 Brigadier General Rich Kim, the U.S. Army North deputy commanding general, will establish a headquarters to help manage the response, the Defense Department said in a news release. 
 
 Faraway Debate 
 
 In Washington, debate swirled this week around the 1920 Jones Act, which requires shipments of goods between two U.S. ports to be made with American-flagged vessels, limiting the amount of shipping and driving up its cost. Early Thursday, Trump authorized a waiver of the rule to ease the emergency response. Critics of the rule said suspending it -- or ending it -- is key to helping the stricken island throughout the week. 
 
 A Cargo ship, left, moves past a U.S. Coast Guard ship from Isla Grande terminal in San Juan. Photographer: Alex Wroblewski/Bloomberg 
 
 The administration temporarily lifted the rule earlier this month to ensure gasoline-starved Florida received supplies after Hurricane Harvey. And foreign ships that took on gasoline or diesel before 11:59 p.m. Sept. 22 under that waiver are still allowed to unload on U.S. soil, Customs and Border Protection spokesman Gregory Moore said last week. 
 
 At least one foreign tanker that left Louisiana last week took advantage of the existing waiver to help Maria victims in Puerto Rico, according to shipping and chartering data compiled by Bloomberg. 
 
 "The waivers make sense in instances where there’s a need and a demand and we’ve exhausted all possible U.S. flagged resources," said Klaus Luhta, vice president of the International Organization of Masters, Mates and Pilots, a union that represents crews on U.S.-flagged vessels. "But to not go through that process is unfortunate, it’s disingenuous and it violates the law." 
 
 Meanwhile, Crowley’s storage space in San Juan is clogged by containers full of goods that normally would go on the shelves of stores like Wal-Mart. Miller said those boxes must move so the company can get even more emergency supplies on the ground. 
 
 “Priority right now is on the government relief cargo,” Miller said. “The sooner we can get commercial customers to come pick up their loads, the quicker we can get those shipping containers back in circulation.” ||||| Doris Montalvo already escaped Puerto Rico once. She left the island and its economic problems seven years ago and found work as a nurse in Connecticut. 
 
 She recently returned for the first time for vacation, and now she can't get out -- trapped this time in an airport terminal in San Juan, one sweltering corner of the humanitarian crisis caused by Hurricane Maria. 
 
 In 100-degree heat, with no air conditioning and a scarce security presence, Montalvo spent the night waiting with her daughter, three grandchildren and the daughter's boyfriend. Scores of others waited with them. They had little water, little food, no working ATMs and no idea when they would get out. 
 
 Montalvo, 54, had driven from the other side of the island because their flight there was canceled. She and her family were told that the first flight they could get out of San Juan would depart October 9. Hotels weren't taking reservations. She couldn't withdraw cash. Stress set in. 
 
 "We just want to get home and get back to our routines, our lives," Montalvo said. "I don't feel safe here. ... I don't want (my grandchildren) to sleep on the sidewalk." 
 
 One week after Maria battered the island, the more than 3 million Americans who live there are struggling to survive. People are scavenging for food, collecting water from mountain streams and drinking the rain. Power is out across the island. Generators and batteries are keeping hospitals open. 
 
 The San Juan airport, by far the largest on the island, is barely functioning. Airlines are having trouble printing boarding passes. TSA equipment was damaged by the hurricane, so security checks are done by hand. 
 
 Only 10 commercial flights made it in and out on Tuesday, and only 18 were expected on Wednesday, according to the airport authority. 
 
 More relief flights are getting in. Airlines are delivering food, water, medicine, blankets, cots, generators and blood for the Red Cross. Those relief flights are returning with as many people as can get on the plane, United says. 
 
 Related: Puerto Ricans still waiting for aid a week after Maria's devastation 
 
 When she lived in Puerto Rico, Montalvo made $15 an hour as a nurse. She got out in the early years of an economic crisis. The unemployment rate on the island is double the national average. The government is bankrupt. People leave every year by the tens of thousands. 
 
 Now she makes $36 an hour at a dialysis clinic in Connecticut. She needed to get back to her job, and she needed to get the grandchildren home to be registered at their new school, Walsh Elementary in Waterbury. Montalvo worries they will lose their seats if they are stuck in Puerto Rico for weeks. 
 
 Fifty yards down the terminal, Stephanie Navarro also wants to give her two young daughters a better life. They were supposed to move Tuesday to a relative's place in upstate New York, where Navarro believes she can find a better job and good schools. 
 
 Instead, they slept on the terminal floor, along with Navarro's boyfriend, Javier, waiting for the next Delta plane after their original flight was canceled. 
 
 "We're stuck here. There's no phone to call people, there's no water, there's no ice, there's no nothing," said Navarro, 26. 
 
 Related: Who will help Puerto Rico? 
 
 Other travelers described their own nightmares. 
 
 Alicia Beniquez was traveling with her husband and her 3-year-old granddaughter. Before trying to fly home to New Haven, Connecticut, she tried to return her rental car to the company, U Save, with a full tank of gas. 
 
 "You go to the gas station and all you get is $10," Beniquez said. "I brought it back with a quarter tank and they want to charge you." 
 
 U Save did not respond to CNNMoney's request for comment. Beniquez slept at the airport Tuesday. 
 
 Standing in line, Eric Mott tried to bring order to chaos. He made a list of the names of the strangers waiting with him. He planned to give it to Southwest Airlines employees in the morning. He had three pages' worth already. 
 
 Mott, a real estate agent in Denver, wanted to make sure no one stole a place in line. People were sweating through the night, sleeping on steel chairs. 
 
 "I'm a firm believer that people want to do the right thing, but then when emotions get involved ... " Mott said, trailing off. "We're going to spend the night here tonight. I want it to be nice and orderly." 
 
 Surrounded by strangers at an airport that was barely operating, he had no plans to sleep. 
 
 "I haven't pulled an all-nighter since college," he said, "so I'm due for one." 
 
 --Chris Isidore, Ivan Watson and Jo Shelley contributed reporting to this article ||||| President Donald Trump defended his administration’s response to the crisis in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria amid criticism that his public focus has been somewhere else. 
 
 Trump spent four straight days criticizing NFL players and teams on Twitter for kneeling during the national anthem before his news conference with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Sept. 26, 2017. 
 
 When reporters asked Trump about his attention on the Puerto Rico emergency, he lamented the strength of the storm and praised the response to it by FEMA. 
 
 The accuracy of Trump’s commentary on the storm was mixed. 
 
 "Puerto Rico didn’t get hit by one hurricane, it got hit by two hurricanes. I mean, the second one hit Puerto Rico as a Category 5. I don't believe anybody's ever seen that happen before, hit, land with that kind of velocity." 
 
 Maria did reach Category 5 status but made landfall in Puerto Rico as a Category 4 hurricane. Category 4 storms have sustained wind speeds between 130 and 156 miles per hour. Maria hit the upper limit. 
 
 Category 5 landfall wouldn’t have been unprecedented, though, as three such hurricanes have made landfall in the United States, the last one being Hurricane Andrew in Florida 25 years ago. 
 
 It was indeed the second hurricane to impact the island in the last few weeks; the core of Hurricane Irma passed north of Puerto Rico on Sept. 6, 2017, creating significant damage. 
 
 Share the Facts 2017-09-26 22:36:06 UTC PolitiFact -1 -1 -1 PolitiFact Rating: Category 4 not 5 PolitiFact Rating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AayEo1Nmpfc “Puerto Rico didn’t get hit by one hurricane, it got hit by two hurricanes. I mean, the second one hit Puerto Rico as a Category 5. I don't believe anybody's ever seen that happen before, hit, land with that kind of velocity.” Donald Trump President of the United States in a speech Tuesday, September 26, 2017 2017-09-26 Read More info 
 
 Maria’s winds were "200 miles an hour" 
 
 In a bipartisan meeting on tax reform earlier in the day, Trump said the storm had winds of over 200 miles an hour. 
 
 Hurricane Maria reached maximum sustained winds of 155 miles per hour in Puerto Rico according to Dennis Feltgen, a spokesman for the National Hurricane Center. Gusts, which are occasional but not sustained winds, reached 195 miles per hour. 
 
 Share the Facts 2017-09-26 22:39:36 UTC PolitiFact -1 -1 -1 PolitiFact Rating: Max Winds 155 MPH PolitiFact Rating: https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/09/26/remarks-president-trump-meeting-bipartisan-members-house-committee-ways Maria’s winds were "200 miles an hour" Donald Trump President of the United States in a speech Tuesday, September 26, 2017 2017-09-26 Read More info 
 
 As a result of the hurricane, Puerto Rico faces serious food, water and power shortages. The death toll has reached 10 people so far; 80 percent of the transmission infrastructure was destroyed, and it could take four to six months before power is restored. 
 
 That didn’t hold Trump back from declaring the storm response a success. 
 
 "We've had tremendous reviews from government officials. This morning the government made incredible statements about how well we're doing." 
 
 The White House referenced comments by Puerto Rican officials on CNN, which were more mixed than the "generous" praise he described. 
 
 Gov. Ricardo Rosselló sung Trump’s praises while pressing for further assistance. 
 
 "Well, the president has been phenomenal in this situation," Rosselló said on CNN. "He's been, both in Irma and Maria, he has offered an pre- landfall emergency declaration. He's already declared most of the island a disaster area so that we can start the rebuilding process quickly. And he just said that he loved the people of Puerto Rico, and that he would help, that he would stand by us in our rebuilding process." 
 
 Rosselló nonetheless said that more resources would be needed to address the process on Bloomberg. 
 
 "Administration, they've been helpful up until now," Rosselló said. "But we need more help. We need more help. We need more resources. And at the same time, Congress solidarity and all of the help that they've pledged through social media and phone calls with our staff. Now is the time to materialize it." 
 
 San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz acknowledged, "We are getting a lot of logistics help." But she expressed frustration with Trump's tweets on the devastation in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria. 
 
 "Much of the Island was destroyed, with billions of dollars owed to Wall Street and the banks which, sadly, must be dealt with. Food, water and medical are top priorities - and doing well," Trump tweeted." 
 
 ...It's old electrical grid, which was in terrible shape, was devastated. Much of the Island was destroyed, with billions of dollars.... — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 26, 2017 
 
 ...owed to Wall Street and the banks which, sadly, must be dealt with. Food, water and medical are top priorities - and doing well. #FEMA — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 26, 2017 
 
 You don’t put debt above people. You put people above debt," Yulin Cruz said on CNN. "There is a human moral imperative to deal with that situation first." 
 
 Trump is scheduled to visit Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands on Oct. 3. ||||| Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. 
 
 / Updated By Daniella Silva 
 
 Nearly half of Puerto Rico’s 3.4 million residents still lack potable water one week after Hurricane Maria wreaked havoc on the island, officials reiterated Wednesday — as locals literally scrambled to stay alive. 
 
 About 44 percent of the Puerto Rican population remains without drinking water, the Department of Defense said in a statement Wednesday. 
 
 “Given the changing scope and conditions, DoD will adjust its concept of operations in Puerto Rico and transition from a short term, sea-based response to a predominantly land-based effort designed to provide robust, longer term support to [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] and [to Puerto Rico]," the statement, from Defense Department spokesman Army Lt. Col. Jamie Davis, read. 
 
 Meanwhile, many locals said they were struggling to find safe drinking water and increasingly worried about a looming public health crisis in the U.S. territory. 
 
 “This paradise has turned into hell lately in the last couple of days,” said Gregorio Cortés, a doctor from Carolina, Puerto Rico, by phone on Wednesday. 
 
 Related: Lawmakers Want General Commanding Hurricane Relief 
 
 “Pharmacies and supermarkets are starting to close because they don’t have enough diesel supply to keep running so people are having less and less opportunity to find drinking water and food or supplies, he said. 
 
 Cortés said many on the lived in worry about where they would find their next supply of water for themselves and their families. “That’s everyday life for us now,” he said. 
 
 People sometimes travel long distances after hearing a particular store still had drinking water and food left, only to leave empty handed, he added. 
 
 In the northern municipality of Bayamón, mother Betsy Chilea described looking for water for her children. 
 
 "It's very hard because we don't have anything," she told NBC News. 
 
 When asked if she had seen federal aid in the area, she said, "No! Not anything. Don't see anything." 
 
 Related: Mayor Issues ‘S.O.S.’ as Puerto Ricans Scramble to Help Most Vulnerable 
 
 Cortés, who is father to a 7-year-old and 3-year-old, said that even for families who have had their running water restored, there is major risk that it is not clean enough to drink because of contamination. 
 
 “We’re boiling the water and after we boil it we are filtering it and especially since I have small kids we worry about them and their safety,” he said. 
 
 There are more than 8,800 federal staff, including 600 FEMA workers, on the ground in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands aiding recovery efforts after Hurricanes Irma and Maria, FEMA said Wednesday. 
 
 People queue to fill containers with water from a tank truck at an area hit by Hurricane Maria in Canovanas, Puerto Rico, Sept. 26. Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters 
 
 The agency said it has provided more than 6.5 million liters of water, 4.4 million meals and 70,000 tarps, among other supplies, to the islands since Maria first made landfall. 
 
 President Trump has said he will visit the area next Tuesday. 
 
 Related: What Is the Jones Act, the Law Some Say Hurts Puerto Rico? 
 
 "I will be going down to Puerto Rico next week to get an on the ground briefing about the disaster recovery and to see all of our great first responders and to be meet a lot of the people who were so affected by these storms," he said from Indiana on Wednesday. "We are with you now, I tell them, and we will be there every step of the way until this job is done. It is truly catastrophic what happened in Puerto Rico." 
 
 But even with federal and local aid trickling, residents in San Juan and throughout Puerto Rico still lacked basic necessities and some said the public health risk was mounting. 
 
 Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló said Wednesday evening that the island was working to meet the needs of its people while facing a major disaster. 
 
 People carry water in bottles retrieved from a canal due to lack of water following passage of Hurricane Maria, in Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, on Sept. 25. Hector Retamal / AFP - Getty Images 
 
 "You have to understand that this is a devastation of an enormous magnitude, that our grid, our energy grid is completely destroyed," he told MSNBC's Chris Matthews on "Hardball." 
 
 "We are on an island so getting resources over here has been a rate-litigating step so we're working on it we’re delivering food and water, we're making sure diesel gets to the people," he added. 
 
 Isabel Rullán, co-founder and managing director of ConPRmetidos, a non-profit group, said even if people have running water, they may not have the power or means to boil or purify it. The non-profit, which focuses on fostering personal, social, and economic development of Puerto Rican communities, is raising money for long-term relief efforts. 
 
 Photos: Powerless Puerto Rico Struggles to Recover Post Maria 
 
 “This is a big problem," she said by phone Wednesday. Rullán's office in San Juan had only recently gotten its running water back, but the situation was still critical in many areas, she said. 
 
 "We’re in San Juan which is one of the least affected areas and they were still very much affected," she said. 
 
 Rullán, who lives in the northern municipality of Guaynabo, said her own building lacked running water and power. She was given water by neighbors after the hurricane hit because there was none left in the nearest supermarket. 
 
 People line up to fill containers with water from a tank truck after the area was hit by Hurricane Maria on Sept. 26 in Canovanas, Puerto Rico. Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters 
 
 She added that the problem went beyond access to drinking water — it was becoming a real public health concern. 
 
 Compounding that issue was hospitals lacking diesel and being unable to take new patients, she said. 
 
 "There’s so much contamination right now, there’s so many areas that are flooded and have oil, garbage in the water, there’s debris everywhere,” she said by phone. 
 
 “We’re going to have a lot of people that are potentially and unfortunately going to get sick and may die,” she said. 
 
 Photos: Satellite Photos Show Puerto Rico Left in the Dark 
 
 The Department of Defense said Wednesday that 59 of the 69 hospitals were “operational with unknown status.” FEMA also said it had delivered fuel to 19 hospitals for power generators. 
 
 Still, doctors and locals have described rising concern over the availability of diesel to power life-saving equipment. Hurricane Maria has been blamed for at least 18 deaths in the territory. 
 
 “This is what’s going to happen with the water, people are going to start getting sick and then there’s not enough space in the hospitals,” Rullán said. 
 
 CORRECTION (Sept. 17, 2017, 10 p.m.): An earlier version of this article misstated how much water FEMA has provided to residents of Puerto Rico. The agency has provided more than 6.5 million liters of water, not 6.5 liters.
– Bad news for those booked on Royal Caribbean's Adventure of the Seas trip on Sept. 30: It's been canceled. The reason, however, is better news for residents of Puerto Rico. CNN reports that the ship will instead bring aid to San Juan, as well to the Virgin Islands, then turn around and bring evacuees to Fort Lauderdale. Other cruise lines have similarly pitched in to help places devastated by the recent hurricanes. A look at other developments as Puerto Rico copes with a severe lack of food, water, and power: Trump's move: President Trump on Thursday waived the Jones Act, a move that will allow foreign ships to dock at Puerto Rican ports with aid. The Washington Post has an explainer about the act and why it exists in the first place. Logjam: Bloomberg reports that "mountains" of relief aid in the form of emergency meals and other supplies are piling up on Puerto Rico's ports because of the logistical nightmare of getting it distributed. USA Today says "thousands" of shipping containers are in such limbo, thanks to "red tape, lack of drivers and a widespread telecommunications blackout." Water: Puerto Rico has 3.4 million residents, and nearly half of them still lack potable water one week after Maria blew through, reports NBC News. The situation is turning into "hell," says one local doctor. Fact-checking Trump: Politifact looks into some of the president's recent statements about Puerto Rico and finds some truth-stretching going on. Attention, Florida: An analysis at the Washington Post floats a hypothetical that could have big political consequences. If thousands of Puerto Ricans move permanently to the state as a result of the hurricane, that could be enough to tilt the "swingiest of swing states" into solid Democratic territory. Generally speaking, Puerto Rico votes Democratic. Airport: Flights out of the main airport in San Juan are few and far between because the hurricane largely wiped out radar and navigational systems, reports the New York Times. In fact, security checks must be done by hand because TSA equipment isn't working, reports CNN. Renowned observatory: The Arecibo Observatory, which once held the title as the world's largest radio telescope, seems to have survived the hurricane largely intact, reports Sky and Telescope. But full assessments were still taking place. Big names helping: Ricky Martin talks to Ellen DeGeneres about helping out in this clip. Rapper Pitbull, Mark Cuban, and Jennifer Lopez also were donating in big ways, and Vogue rounds them up.