I said those words that will forever echo in my mind, and we are dying here, and you are killing us with your bureaucracy and your inefficiency.

I also said I am done being politically correct. I am mad as hell.

After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, San Juan Mayor Carmen Eulene Cruz emerged as one of the

island's fiercest advocates. Carmen tells me she was called to service very young,

and that years living and studying in the states made her even more Puerto Rican.

Now, as she prepares to run for governor,

she's coming to terms with the fact that she is not destined to live a normal life

so that others on her beloved island can.

You spent most of your academic career as president of your class,

eighth grade to senior year of high school.

What drew you?

What was that call to service?

Well, if I'm going to be, as I always am totally honest, on the eighth grade, people were

complaining about the seventh grade precedent. They're like, oh, he's not, you know, we used to have

this assemblies. I went to a very progressive high school, even then. It's the University of Puerto Rico

secondary high school. So it's kind of a lab school. It's not a charter

school. It's a lab school. And, you know, they would give us the books that they were going to use

in the public school system for us to sit down with the writers and tell them what we thought was

wrong. So here I am at eight years old telling award-winning writers, you know, you really need to make this a lot more

comfortable because it's very boring. And they would look at me like, I cannot believe it. And

finally, they talked and talked and talked. And I remember I took a broom. There was a broom

because they were all talking at the same time and I smacked it against the desk. And I said, I'll do it.

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