Puerto Rico: A year of reporting on Hurricane Maria
Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm on September 20, 2017, and the devastation is still apparent throughout the U.S. territory a year later. These photos offer a behind-the-scenes glimpse of CBS News correspondents, producers and crews at work covering the impact on the island and its people.
Here, CBS News correspondent Omar Villafranca interviews a survivor of Hurricane Maria in the remains of her home in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, on September 29, 2017.
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CBS News Correspondent Omar Villafranca aboard the USS Kearsarge off the coast of Puerto Rico on September 27, 2017.
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CBS News cameraman Tony Furlow, documenting a washed-out road in Utuado, Puerto Rico, on October 1, 2017.
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Everyday necessities like bread and water were hard to find in the weeks after Hurricane Maria. An empty store shelf is seen here in Utuado, Puerto Rico, on October 1, 2017.
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On October 1, 2017, the debris was still everywhere from the massive flooding caused by Hurricane Maria. This is a bridge in downtown Utuado, Puerto Rico.
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CBS News correspondent David Begnaud interviewing Puerto Rico's Governor Ricardo Rosselló in October 2017.
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CBS News correspondent David Begnaud interviewing San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz in October 2017.
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Desperately needed relief supplies reach residents of Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, on September 29, 2017.
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CBS News correspondent David Begnaud during a live shot in a neighborhood of San Juan, Puerto Rico, in October 2017. He spent nearly a month in Puerto Rico, beginning two days before the storm hit.
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CBS News correspondent David Begnaud with Puerto Rico's Governor Ricardo Rosselló on a visit to Ponce, Puerto Rico, in October 2017.
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CBS News correspondent David Begnaud visits ALS patient Carmelo Diaz on October 13, 2017, in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Reliant on a ventilator to breathe, Diaz's life was in jeopardy after the storm. He was later evacuated to the U.S. with the help of Team Gleason, a foundation started by former NFL player Steve Gleason, who also has ALS.
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CBS News correspondent David Begnaud meeting with a cancer patient asking to be evacuated from Puerto Rico on October 12, 2017.
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CBS News correspondent David Begnaud interviews Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and star of "Hamilton," near the remnants of his grandfather's home in Vega Alta, outside San Juan, for a "CBS Sunday Morning" feature in November 2017.
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"Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda talks with CBS News correspondent David Begnaud in Puerto Rico for a "CBS Sunday Morning" feature in November 2017.
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Nearly a year after the hurricane, 45,000 homes in Puerto Rico were still waiting for government aid to fix their roofs.
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CBS News correspondent David Begnaud visiting the forensic center and morgue in San Juan, where refrigerated 18-wheelers were needed to hold a backlog of bodies waiting for autopsies in the summer of 2018.
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CBS News correspondent David Begnaud with producer T. Sean Herbert on the island of Vieques interviewing Mark Martin on August 30, 2018.
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Many businesses had still not reopened months after the hurricane hit. This storefront was still boarded up in the summer of 2018.
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The storm downed 80 percent of the island's power lines. Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority said the last of its customers were finally reconnected in mid-August 2018, 11 months after the storm.
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CBS News correspondent David Begnaud at the governor's mansion in San Juan, Puerto Rico, interviewing Governor Ricard Rosselló in August 2018.