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Some Skeptical, Some Hopeful, San Juan Residents React To President Trump's Visit

"I think that it makes no difference in our situation right now," said one resident. Said another: "Any help is welcomed considering the situation in which we find ourselves in, be it large or small."

Updated at 8:23 p.m. ET

In central San Juan, Puerto Rico, a policeman waves cars away from a closed freeway at about the time that President Trump landed at the airport.

A few blocks away, nurse Luisa Traverzo is taking a cigarette break from her job coordinating the transfer of patients from other hospitals. She has been busy — Hospital Pavia Santurce currently has power, so it has been receiving patients that the death toll from Hurricane Maria has risen to 34.

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