HARLOW: Top of the hour. Good morning, everyone. I'm Poppy Harlow.</s>BERMAN: And I'm John Berman. So apparently the paper towels were not enough. The president is tossing new barbs at the hurricane victims in Puerto Rico. This is what he wrote this morning, we cannot keep FEMA, the military and the first responders, who have been amazing under the most difficult circumstances, in Puerto Rico forever.</s>HARLOW: All right, here are the facts. Forty-five people have died in Puerto Rico as a result of the storm, 113 people are still missing, 83 percent of the island is still without power. And just this morning, the EPA issued a statement. It reads in part, there were reports of residents obtaining or trying to obtain drinking water from wells at hazardous waste super-fund (ph) sites in Puerto Rico. All of this is quite a reversal from what the president and his number two, Vice President Mike Pence, said earlier this month.</s>DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We now have more than 15,000 federal personnel on the island, 15,000. We will not rest until that job is done. Puerto Rico has a long road of recovery ahead. A very long road.</s>MIKE PENCE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Our message here today is the same as President Trump's message earlier this week, that we're here for the long haul.</s>HARLOW: Let's get straight to Kaitlan Collins. She joins us from the White House. What prompted this? Three tweets on Puerto Rico. Something you just -- you can't imagine him saying about the victims in Florida or Texas from those hurricanes.</s>KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN WHITE HOUSE REPORTER: Yes, he has not issued statements like that about Texas or Florida, but he seems this morning to be effectively putting Puerto Rico on notice. He's threatening to abandon the recovery efforts there and pull back on the number of relief workers who are on the island. And the president -- this is just while they're in the middle of this --
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