An island-wide power outage in Puerto Rico left millions of residents without electricity on New Year’s Eve. Officials say it could take a few days to restore the power grid.
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00:00An island-wide blackout left millions of people across Puerto Rico without power on New Year's
00:05Eve, with officials saying it will take days to restore the grid.
00:09We are talking about 48 hours approximately. We are already starting to restore the service.
00:16Many places in the metropolitan area already have services, specifically the area of the
00:21medical center, the hospitals that are there, which is something extremely important.
00:25Residents across the U.S. territory lined up for food and gas as the island's power
00:30grid collapsed. Luma Energy, which supplies much of Puerto Rico's electricity, says they
00:35are investigating the cause. Puerto Rico has long faced chronic power outages as its infrastructure
00:41crumbles, especially after it was devastated by Category 4 Hurricane Maria in 2017. Residents
00:48say they have come to expect these types of outages.
00:52We have been dealing with this problem for a couple of months now, but there have been
00:59rumors that what happened today could have happened.