NEW YORK (WABC) — Eyewitness News reporter Joe Torres is in Puerto Rico as the island continues to recover from Hurricane Fiona.
At least 16 people have died and much of the country was left without power more than a week after the storm hit.
The flooding and power outages hit the island which is still not fully recovered from Hurricane Maria in 2017.
Monday Sept. 26
Survival after the storm
People and business owners in Humacao have been without power for more than a week and survival is a day-to-day challenge.
Most businesses are closed, schools are shuttered and generators are providing power to the hospital.
New York works to help
At a news conference Monday morning, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand urged congressional leadership to provide emergency supplemental funding for disaster recovery and relief support as well as $1 billion in nutritional aid for Puerto Rico.
The announcement came as a team of 15 from five different NYC departments worked to …