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The Daily

Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.4102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm on Sept. 20, flooding neighborhoods and villages and cutting power to 3.4 million people. More than four months later, much of the island is still in shock. A recent visit to a suicide prevention center shows the long-term toll on mental health in a place struck by the overwhelming impression that the rest of the world has moved on. Guest: Caitlin Dickerson, a national reporter for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0

From the New York Times on Michael Barbarrow, this is the Daily Mail.

0:07.0

Today, a visit to a call center shows the long-term toll on mental health in a place where

0:17.0

the storm has long passed and the rest of the world has moved on.

0:27.4

It's Thursday, February 8th.

0:34.4

It's all over the city.

0:38.4

Caitlin, describe for me what you see as you walk into the call center.

0:44.6

It's almost like walking into a teeny little elementary school classroom.

0:50.1

Caitlin Dickerson is a national reporter for the times.

0:53.3

There are low-ceilings, tile floors, fluorescent lighting.

0:58.1

There are signs posted with thumbtacks upon the desks that remind the call center workers

1:03.3

to speak with compassion, to speak with love.

1:07.0

They're sitting in these little cramped cubicles right next to each other.

1:10.4

They have a computer and then they each have multiple phones because sometimes they have

1:13.8

to pass phones back and forth to one another in an emergency.

1:17.3

So the two or three people can be working with one caller at a time.

1:22.8

And the phones in this room just ring constantly.

1:28.8

I was standing next to this woman named Maria.

1:31.4

She's worked there for four years.

1:33.4

She's got curly hair and a really big smile.

1:36.4

She's expressive when she talks.

1:38.7

And every day she comes to work, she sits down at a cubicle and she starts taking these

1:43.0

phone calls.

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