Puerto Rico

Frankie and Johnny mark one decade since the Sandy Hook shooting, discuss a gun incident at an East Granby elementary school, and note a long-shot push for Puerto Rican statehood.

The storm made landfall on Sept. 18 and knocked out power to the entire island. Nearly a third of customers in Puerto Rico's westernmost municipalities are still waiting for electricity.

The U.S. government announced it would allow foreign diesel deliveries to Puerto Rico as it faces a dwindling supply of fuel nearly two weeks after Hurricane Fiona pummeled the U.S. territory.

Frankie & Johnny: Sept. 23, 2022. Topics this week include Hurricane Fiona's impact on Puerto Rico, testimony in Connecticut from defendant Alex Jones in the Sandy Hook defamation trial, and New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge approaching 61 home-run mark.

Around 50,000 solar and battery power systems have been installed on homes in Puerto Rico in recent years, and most seemed to continue working during Hurricane Fiona.

The hurricane dumped more than 2 feet of rain in some areas of the island. The rain and flooding have left a soggy mess across many homes and weary residents are starting to clean up.

The U.S. response to Maria was widely seen as wholly inadequate. As the island marks the anniversary of the Category 4 storm, the destruction caused by Fiona has emerged as a test of lessons learned.

In 2019, Connecticut was home to the sixth-largest concentration of Puerto Ricans in the United States.

Hurricane Fiona is bearing down on the Dominican Republic after knocking out the power grid and unleashing floods and landslides in Puerto Rico, where the governor said the damage was “catastrophic.”

Hartford is facing a shortage of bilingual teachers. The district is addressing the problem by recruiting teachers from Puerto Rico. Several school leaders from Hartford head to the island this week. Connecticut Public Radio’s Brenda León visited the classroom of one teacher from Puerto Rico who arrived a year ago.