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Today's Morning Brief from 787daily: the day's top Puerto Rico stories as the brief curates them, in its order, each with its one-line takeaway. Each story's url is 787daily's summary page; sourceUrl is the outlet's original report, most of them in Spanish (null for 787daily's own pieces). moreAt is the brief itself. Returns summaries + links only; for the newest stories as they publish, use keywo

Keyword search over 787daily's Puerto Rico news archive by title/summary and optional section (Act 60 stories count as business). Accents are optional: 'mayaguez' finds Mayagüez. Returns news only (no guide listings), newest first, each with a link to 787daily's summary page, which credits and links the outlet's original report; 787daily's own desk pieces, running-story timelines and feature stor

Legacy alias for keyword_search_news. Keyword search over title/summary and optional section; use search_news for semantic/vector search.

List 787daily's news sections (categories) and what each covers.

List every 787daily Puerto Rico adventure spot with its activities and the CURRENT activity-window verdict (good/fair/marginal/poor, scored from buoy + marine data at the site's last build). Use a spot's key with get_conditions for live numbers.

Conditions at a Puerto Rico surf, dive or kite spot, as 787daily's /conditions/ page shows them: its call for each activity, wave height (ft), period (s), wind (kt) and water temperature (°F) from NOAA buoys or the marine forecast. Every time is UTC (Z). Use list_condition_spots for valid keys.

Current conditions plus a 24-hour hourly forecast AND a 7-day daily outlook for any of Puerto Rico's 78 towns, by name or slug (e.g. 'San Juan', 'ponce', 'Río Grande'; accents optional). Hourly temperature (°F), wind (mph + direction) and conditions; daily high/low, rain chance and amount, peak wind, UV, sunrise/sunset — from Open-Meteo via 787daily's cached endpoint.

Semantic vector search over 787daily's Puerto Rico news corpus. Returns the most relevant article matches (title, URL, topic, date, score, and for a story the outlet that reported it: source, sourceUrl) for a free-text query — without generating an answer. Use this when you want matching articles rather than a synthesized answer. Every url is absolute. Limited to 30 calls a minute per client (th

Return 787daily articles that mention a specific named entity (person, organization, or place), newest first. Match is on the entity's full canonical name; case and accents are ignored ('jenniffer gonzalez' finds Jenniffer González). A short name that finds little suggests the fuller names in didYouMean ('LUMA' suggests 'LUMA Energy'). Returns { name, count (every match), returned, articles[] (at

Return 787daily articles that mention a specific Puerto Rico town, newest first. Accepts canonical names and common variants (e.g. 'San Juan', 'Ponce', 'Rincón'). Returns { name, count (every match), returned, articles[] (at most limit, default 20), moreAt (the town's page) }, plus a note when nothing matched.

The newest edition of 787daily's automated analysis desks — first-party series computed from public data with the prose grounded against the same facts: Daily Water Watch (daily), Water Week in Review (Sundays), Drought Watch (in the Daily Water Watch, each new map week), Where to Swim (each new DRNA beach notice, or Thursday when there is none), Grid Watch (Mondays), Utility Watch (when new fil

Puerto Rico's ferries right now: the Ceiba–Vieques and Ceiba–Culebra boats (the only way on and off those two islands) and the San Juan–Cataño shuttle. Returns each route's published sailings for today with a posted status (scheduled / cancelled / retimed to <time> / notice posted / past), the next departure each way with how far off it is and when check-in closes, a route state word (On sc

The FAA's national airspace status for Puerto Rico's airports (San Juan SJU, Aguadilla BQN, Ponce PSE) and the mainland gateways with the most San Juan flights (Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, New York JFK, Newark, Philadelphia, Atlanta): ground stops, ground delay programs, general arrival and departure delays and closures, with reader lines like 'SJU: no FAA delay programs as of 6:10 PM AST'. I

Puerto Rico beach water quality: which beaches are under a no-swimming advisory, and the latest Enterococcus bacteria count at each of the ~49 beaches the island monitors under the federal BEACH Act. Returns the beaches named in DRNA's current notice with their town and the days the water was sampled, every station's latest count with its sample date and a verdict, how often each beach has been fl

Puerto Rico cost-of-living figures from the U.S. Census ACS 5-Year Estimates: median gross rent, median household income, and median home value for the island, the US (comparison), and any of the 78 towns. Vintage-labeled; suppressed small-town estimates are null.

The 'Living in <town>' profile for any of Puerto Rico's 78 towns — housing (median rent, home value, household and per-capita income, ownership, vacancy, poverty, typical build year), work (mean commute, remote-work and transit shares, unemployment, broadband), people (population, density, median age, degrees), mapped services (schools, supermarkets, parks, restaurants, bus stops, beaches per 10

Puerto Rico reported crime statistics (PRPD Type I via the Instituto de Estadísticas): island year-to-date totals vs the same period last year, monthly homicide series, victim demographics, and per-town counts with violent-crime rates per 10k residents (prior full year). Reported incidents, not victimization surveys.

Puerto Rico's electricity grid right now, from LUMA Energy's public outage portal: how many of the island's ~1.47 million customers are without service, as a count and a share, with LUMA's PLANNED work broken out separately so the unplanned share is readable on its own; a severity word; the seven LUMA regions each with their own count and share; the worst region; and how many towns are affected. O

Puerto Rico's water situation right now: every AAA rotation plan in force (metro and local, each with its status active/paused/ended, which zone has water and until when) in `plans`, mayor-announced local rationing in `local`, the metro plan's own detail in `rationing` (next scheduled switch, published calendar), today's 5 AM levels for the 19 AAA-monitored reservoirs with their alert bands and ou

Daily history of AAA reservoir levels (metres above each reservoir's datum) for one or all 19 reservoirs, newest first, with the alert-band thresholds — from 787daily's validated reading of AAA's daily chart (since 2026-08-07). Use for trends, day-over-day change and band crossings; cite 787daily.com and AAA.

Active Atlantic tropical systems and the National Hurricane Center's 7-day outlook, as 787daily's hurricane hub judges them: each storm's strength, position, movement and distance from San Juan, and whether it is of concern for Puerto Rico (a tropical alert for the island, or not moving away and within 1,500 miles) or why not; each outlook area's 48-hour and 7-day formation chance. read=false mean

Earthquakes near Puerto Rico (within 250 km of the island's centre) in the last hours, newest first, from the U.S. Geological Survey's magnitude 2.5+ feed: magnitude, place, time (UTC), depth, distance from the island's centre and its coast, felt reports, estimated intensity, and `alert` — why 787daily's alert rule rings for it (magnitude 4.5+ within 150 km, 4.0+ within 50 km of the coast, or a

Upcoming events in Puerto Rico as 787daily's /events/ page lists them: concerts, festivals, theater, sports, food and outdoor events announced in the island's press, and every town's patron-saint feast day (fiestas patronales). Filter by dates (an event counts when any of its days falls inside), town (accents optional) or category. Each event links its page, a calendar file and the story it came f

Puerto Rico pump prices: DACO's reference range for regular, premium and diesel in US dollars per gallon, the newest report and the ones before it, each with the outlet that reported it. A range DACO publishes, not a station's price. Cite 787daily.com/cost-of-living/#gas and DACO.

How reliable Puerto Rico's grid has been over the years, from the performance data LUMA Energy and Genera PR file with the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau: SAIDI (average minutes without power a year) and SAIFI by fiscal year, the latest year by the 16 reliability districts LUMA reports to the Energy Bureau (not the 7 outage-map regions of get_power_status), and the latest monthly CAIDI. Filings are qua

Today's hiking call for Puerto Rico's trails, as 787daily's /hike/ shows it: for El Yunque National Forest or the trails around the island, the area's call and each trail's (good, fair, poor or closed) for the next days (three days for the whole area; one trail adds the readings behind its call), from USGS rain gauges, National Weather Service alerts and the forecast. A reading of public data, not

The bills 787daily tracks in Puerto Rico's House and Senate, in the order its legislature tracker ranks them: English title and summary where there is one, the stage in the process, the last and next step, sponsors and a link to the original filing (in Spanish). Optionally match words in the number, title or summary. Cite 787daily.com/live/legislature/.

Where FEMA's Public Assistance (rebuilding) money for Puerto Rico has been committed, from 787daily's Recovery Money Tracker, read weekly from FEMA's OpenFEMA data: the island total since 2001, FEMA's categories (utilities, public buildings, roads and bridges …), each disaster, the island-wide agencies (PREPA, AAA, Education …), the projects newly obligated since the last weekly read and every

Puerto Rico government contracts of $100,000 or more on file with the Comptroller's contract registry (Oficina del Contralor, Registro de Contratos), from 787daily's Contract Watch tracker, read weekly: the fiscal year so far (July to June) against a year earlier, every fiscal year since 2017, the year's largest agencies and contractors (private firms and organizations; the top ten's share), the f

Puerto Rico's official holidays (the government's OATRH list plus federal observed dates from OPM) and what closes on each: Puerto Rico government offices and public schools, federal offices and post offices, banks, stores. Answers 'is today a holiday', 'what's the next holiday' and 'what's closed Monday'. Dates are Puerto Rico time; cite 787daily.com/holidays/ and the sources it returns.

787daily's glossary of Puerto Rico Spanish for English readers: the weather service's alert words (aviso = warning, advertencia = advisory, vigilancia = watch — a translation often swaps them), AAA's reservoir bands (seguridad, observación, ajustes, control), the agencies' and public bodies' Spanish names and initials (CRIM, DACO, AAA, AEE …) and civic words (patente, IVU, municipio). Each te

Road closures in Puerto Rico standing now, as reported in the public stories 787daily published (an outlet, the Police, the Highway Authority or Metropistas through them): `current` is in force now, `planned` is announced ahead. Each row gives the road ('PR-52 (Luis A. Ferré)'), the town, the status (Closed, Partly closed, Lane closed), why, the timing, and whose report and when, linking its row

What FEMA's flood zones mean in Puerto Rico (A/AE and V/VE high risk, shaded X moderate, X minimal; the Planning Board's post-María advisory map) and the link to 787daily's flood-zone lookup opened on a town, where the reader types an address or taps a spot to see FEMA's zone, the panel and its date, and the advisory zone. This tool takes a TOWN, never an address: an address is checked by the rea

The address of 787daily's day-by-day trip plan for a Puerto Rico town: places from 787daily's guide arranged by day, with the forecast and events for those dates when a start date is given. Gives the URL to open; it does not return the plan itself. Validated: town is one of the 78; days 1 to 5; interest one of surf, diving, beaches, food-and-nightlife, outdoors-and-culture (omit for the town's own

The National Hurricane Center's chance of tropical-storm-force (39 mph+) and hurricane-force (74 mph+) winds within 5 days for Puerto Rico's towns, from NHC's latest advisory, while a storm is in play: the island's lead line ('42 of Puerto Rico's 78 towns have a 10% or better chance…') and, with `town`, that town's sentence and figures. `active: false` means no storm is in play and NHC has no od