2. Puerto Rico is also struggling. Three weeks after Hurricane Maria, many are so desperate for drinking water that there have been reports of people trying to draw from wells on Superfund sites. Delivery trucks at stores have prompted stampedes.

President Trump tried to reassure Puerto Ricans that federal help would not be withdrawn, after sowing fear and confusion by suggesting the island was somehow to blame for its predicament and that emergency workers wouldn’t stay there “forever.”

This Saturday, the five living former presidents will attend a concert benefiting hurricane relief through their new joint fund-raising effort, the One America Appeal.