Latest in Hurricane Maria

UPDATED: As the death toll in Hurricane Florence climbed to five, President Donald Trump squeezed out more tweets insisting the number of deaths attributed to Hurricane Maria in a government funded study is horseradish served up by Democrats and journalists to attack him. Our president has been working up a froth all…

President Donald Trump washed his hands of any responsibility for the nearly 3,000 deaths caused by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico last fall, even blaming Democrats for manipulating the figures to make him look bad. In two tweets this morning, with Hurricane Florence barreling toward the eastern coast, Trump not only…

President Donald Trump this morning took to twitter to assure people his administration is fully prepared to handle the hurricane forecast to be the worst to hit the Carolinas in a quarter century. Breaking from presidential tradition, Trump continued to use the Category 4 hurricane barreling toward the coast as an…

A judge has ruled Puerto Rico must release death data related to Hurricane Maria, after CNN, and the Center for Investigative Journalism, sued to get the data. The Puerto Rican government officially has put the official death toll at 64, but a Harvard study estimates more than 4,600 people may have died due to the…

MAG Film Studios in Puerto Rico is relaunching today after its offices sustained major damage from Hurricane Maria seven months ago. Electrical power failures still are affecting wide swaths of the devastated island, but the return of filming could boost its recovery. The studio, which plans to produce and distribute…

Slammed by back-to-back Category 5 hurricanes in September, the film industry in the U.S. Virgin Islands slowly is struggling to get back on its feet. "We got hit by Hurricane Irma and then two weeks later by Maria," said Luana Wheatley, director of the islands' film office. "That set us back, but we're open for…

Lin-Manuel Miranda will return to play Alexander Hamilton in his smash musical Hamilton when it plays in San Juan, Puerto Rico in January. Miranda and producer Jeffrey Seller broke the news on the stage of the Teatro UPR theater in San Juan today. The University of Puerto Rico venue was damaged during Hurricane Maria…

UPDATE, 4 PM: Sony-owned Crackle is returning to San Juan, Puerto Rico Saturday to wrap production on The Oath. Filming on the 10-episode series was interrupted last month following devastating Hurricane Maria and its aftermath. The show, which began filming there in July, has about nine days of shooting left, a Sony…

AT&T, which is getting set to report third-quarter earnings on Oct. 24, warned Wall Street its results took a significant hit from hurricanes and the earthquake in Mexico. And, oh, by the way, they added: 90,000 video subscribers disappeared in the period for reasons having nothing to do with natural disasters. The…

Puerto Rico's IATSE Local 494 has reopened for business, but there might not be much film business on the hurricane-ravaged island for months to come. The first order of business for union officials when the office reopened Wednesday was to reach out to its 300-plus members to offer assistance and make sure they'd…

While the FCC was marked by partisan politics earlier this week, when the Senate confirmed Republican Chairman Ajit Pai for another 5-year term, today the regulatory body acted in a bipartisan fashion, voting unanimously to help Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. With communication infrastructure a crucial…

"I hate to tell you, Puerto Rico, but you've thrown our budget a little out of whack," President Trump said today, making what was billed as a fact-finding trip to the island still reeling from the impact of two hurricanes. Two weeks after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico as a Category 5 storm, 90% of residents are…