mo4ch:>Trump signs emergency declaration for Puerto Rico as it braces for tropical storm | Mo4ch News

US President Donald Trump has approved an emergency declaration for Puerto Rico, instructing federal agencies to handle all disaster relief efforts on the island as it is about to be hit by tropical storm Dorian.The Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have been authorized to coordinate the disaster relief efforts “which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population,” the declaration states.FEMA is specifically empowered to “identify, mobilize, and provide…all equipment and resources necessary” to fend off the impending humanitarian crisis.Dorian has been gathering momentum as it sweeps through the Caribbean, having already caused power blackouts and knocked down trees in Barbados and St. Lucia. It is feared that the island, which is still reeling from the devastating 2017 hurricane Maria, might sustain a direct hit from the storm, which is forecasted to reach near-hurricane stre…