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Flash flooding to ocur later on today. were already seeing a couple of pictures of flash flooding. this is a 5 1/2-hour satellite loop. the shore came onshore about 6:00 this morning. it moved right to the south of palomas delmar, to the south of san juan, and now its moving offshore. if you were on the north side of this eye, this is called the dirty side, because you not only had the 145-mile-per-hour wind, but you had the forward motion that you have to add to it. this is the cleaner side, yo...

Hours of wednesday, this storm system pushes offshore, but dremds rainfall follows suit. upwards of a foot in some areas going to come down and skirts off into the eastern united states coastline, which well watch carefully. but notice this. seven to 11-foot storm surge. this is not over the open water. this is seven to eight feet above dry ground. up into the first story of a lot of homes. six to nine feet would bring water as high as nine feet into san juan. you look at the power outage foreca...

This reinforced building is extraordinary. tearing off canopy roofs. were seeing the damage done to the palm trees. despite the intense rain and the darkness here. he will move to show you a little bit from another angle too. incredibly hard to simply get a signal up to show you these kind of ferocious winds. extraordinary gusts of wind blowing in vast amounts of vegetation. we may be about to see the flash flooding coming in but soon we will see dawn and get a sense of the destruction we have s...

Issue is going to be the wind damage, structural damage, people getting fresh water and food is going to be a issue and the infrastructure problems in the mountains with flash flooding, trying to get them food and water. this is going to be a humanitarian disaster. dominican can just be grazed, bah ham aus safe, georgia safe. we havent ruled out anything for the carolinas. i expect by this time tomorrow night were going to be in a full all out disaster in puerto rico. >> puts a lump in your thro...

Several hours here if we get a direct land falling hurricane in san juan or across puerto rico. that puts it in perspective. a two four and a half long tornado for instance. the winds have continued to pick up. we are in a sheltered area to keep our team safe. but we did step outside of the building a few moments ago, the trees are starting to lean to the edges, we have lost electricity in the streetes her. the storm surge is the major threat. 6 to 9 feet is the predicted storm surge in the grea...

These localized areas causing flash flooding. the night is going to be long and people are starting to heed the call to stay inside if not evacuated. >> you look at some of the islands that werent hit particularly hard by irma less than two weeks ago they are the base for recovery operations where a lot of relief workers have been and many people who fled irma took shelter and now they are in the path. clearly a lot of the work done in the last couple of weeks are going to be severely impacted i...

Basin hurricane. . we are in san juan. and we expect tropical storm force winds for the next four hours, hurricane force winds by first light. worst conditions between 8:00 and 10:00 in the morning. a lot of tough hours ahead of us to say the least. the storm surge 6 to 9 feet. in the virgin islands, we expect 7 to 11 feet. and that has to do with the shallow nature of the waters across that particular area. this is a mountainous territory in puerto rico. so that is going to act as a barrier. it...

Mountainous island and thats going to cause flash flooding and perhaps mudslides. its going to be a long time until puerto rico forgets the back-to-back battering that its taken from hurricane maria and hurricane irma a couple of weeks ago. well continue to keep our eye on the island, will let you know more about whats happening there. >> realized that the denuclearization is its only acceptable future. the united nations security council recently held to unanimous 15-0 votes adopting hard-hitti...

Coverage. adam is then fox extreme weather center. we begin with steve harrigan who is in san juan, puerto rico, right now. we speak of the rain is heavier than it has been all morning and thats creating flash flooding with some river gates being opened up. the winds have gusted here on the back end of this storm to over 100 miles per hour. the worst of the wins came at about 9:00 in the morning with sustained gusts of more than 104 to 5 miles per hour. those were winds enough to tear the sides ...

From the center coming on shore there near humacao. you can see san juan getting in that those northwestern eye wall in about an hour or hour and a half from now. the worst of the damage is now beginning, the flash flooding is beginning. and extreme winds. a lot of people are with their children in their houses scared right now for good measure, this is a very serious storm. >> its going to be a critical hour for the folks in puerto rico. still ahead, baseballs all-time home record record fall...