Helping Puerto Rico

Name: Helping Puerto Rico
Uploaded: 2018-04-19T21:08:00+00:00
Duration: 2 min 20 s
Description: An island-wide blackout hit Puerto Rico on Wednesday, leaving residents in the dark once again. Officials blamed the outage on an excavator that accidentally downed a transmission line. Seven months ago, Hurricane Maria ripped through Puerto Rico. The U.S. territory has been struggling to repair its unstable power grid.

An island-wide blackout hit Puerto Rico on Wednesday, leaving residents in the dark once again. Officials blamed the outage on an excavator that accidentally downed a transmission line. Seven months ago, Hurricane Maria ripped through Puerto Rico. The U.S. territory has been struggling to repair its unstable power grid.

Posted April 19, 2018 8:47pm EDT