Hurricanes
Wide swaths of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic are without power and running water.
The Turks and Caicos Islands government imposed a curfew as the intensifying storm kept dropping copious rain over the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.
The storm knocked out the power grid and unleashed floods and landslides in Puerto Rico, where the governor said the damage was “catastrophic.”
Forecasters said the storm threatened to dump “historic” levels of rain on Sunday and Monday, with up to 30 inches possible in eastern and southern Puerto Rico.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Puerto Rico was under a hurricane watch Saturday as the storm barreled towards the U.S. territory.
The storm — the first hurricane of an unusually quiet storm season — is centered about 885 miles west of the Azores.
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