If the U.S. Government and its people do not realize soon Puerto Rico is a problem that needs to be addressed with new thinking and new approach, the United States will soon wake up with a new domestic crisis with international ramifications.
Pierluisi warns of potential domestic crisis if Puerto Rico's issues are not addressed.
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Science and medicine have been driving our government decisions. I have been relying on the medical and scientific community in Puerto Rico for my decisions.
We respectfully ask this Committee and Congress to help us address some additional challenges that we are facing in our ongoing post-disaster reconstruction.
The damage that we have suffered, because of this hurricane, is rain-related, mostly. It's going to - by the time, the tail leaves Puerto Rico, we will have gotten roughly 35 inches of rain. That's a huge amount of rain.
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