Transcript for Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Sen. McCain, Puerto Rico

??? Wit Brett Kavanaugh's hearings to a rocky start right now and the first hispanicreme court justice in U.S. History Sonia Sotomayor -- she's not talking about that. She is rin O to young Americans, adapting her obiographyor Ung adult aders in the called "Tug LI story. Please welcome onef my favorite pe the planet justicesotomayo we were talking about John McCain and the after his passing. Did you spend W John McCain? Not a lot. Dn't vote for me. That didn't matter I ribute to him at the capital becau that'hat he taught, the convictions, butnderstandi that othight not share them, but that dt is no a reason to anoth human being. Cheers and applause ] I paid him honor and said thanks hero that he was. Yes, was. [ Cheers it's suchn ho have youhere. I look up to you for solong. Let' talk abor books. I love them. I know youade surehey are publd Can I dothat? S. The times when we tal ab native Spanish speakers and immigration why is that ant to you? Myoved worldas translated into Spanish. The very same day that the English version was pushed. The middle sch had hitch. That will comeut in spa in fewmonths. R someone that grew upa househol where Spanish was , it was important me to acknowled that part of my tage. We are the fastest growing minority group in th tion. We will be is jyears. Do hope that people who want earnspanis one of the great thing do is buy both Lish a Spanish and go along Andre . [ Applau Y of myds did that with my parent "My beloved world" is the parent B the two children's oks. They did th it helped me to. I worked in translating the bookshfriends. I learned much from the process. It was reading and books that allowed you dream ao take yourself out of someough times you liu write about 8 years oldyou lost your dadwan at age 7 -- my sister is here you are an ir I've watched inject herself with insulin. She has iiabetesnd so do you. How did you lea to live past pe I diabetes? Can I show Y something? Yeah. Where's my little stick 'em?here. That'se WHE I was diagno socared of the needle that I ran out of the hospal, underneath a car they wouldn't catch me. The car?nder car. She hid underhe car. It took about six people to come outody ged my leg andulled me out and six hao pull to put that edle into M arm. No assuming the needles littl B better than when I was a kid when your sister grew up. That thing was enormou back that. At any rate how did the coage? Through the unlikely source of comic books. I knew they werepeople, comic book who had hidden superpors. I imagined M as super girl. That gave me too givemyself my. Supergirl,justice. T, really where I grew up in the housing projects few York there weren't any Wyers. There weren't any roleodels to othersvery small. The only way that I could ore the rt of the was thrgh Bo Yes. Ope eyesohe possibies that were potentiay mine.[ applause ] Rea gave me T skill necessary toquerhose poss Juice, Rea wt to ask this U. Both of us are pueo rin. You still haven prto Rico. You N your booksbout how U treasure the time you spent there. Tragically island rently insed the ofcial hurricane MARIA death toll from 64 to nearly 300. What's your reaction to that? I was notepting O the numb not just my , but many families experienced less atutable tohatstorm. My cou uncleho was an derly gentleman on a ventilator. Thntilator wt out when the light out. He wasike that strug to eathe for eight da there S aea wave that followed thestorm. He way eating.ere was no ice T CL him off. Did he make it? N he wasn't part of the 64 and knew man others that weren't either. We thank you for coming.ank you for coming.

This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.