Hard Storm News Today

He joins us now from puerto rico. what are you seeing at this hour? >> the winds are starting to really pick up here, don. the glass inside the rooms are starting to bow back and forth. i think very soon now were all going to take shelter in a safe room, all the guests here. theres no window, completely enclosed room well be ledding towards the next couple of hours when that eye wall starts approaching. but this has been is been an incredible hurricane season. all these islands in the caribbeans...

>> i havent. the whole staff has been keeping us informed. relieving a lot of the stress. >> i hope you get electricity. thanks so much. >> yeah, we lost power hours ago. but they have generators. were up with power still. >> heather in puerto rico tonight on her honeymoon with her husband luke married on the 9th and now having to deal with. this were wishing everyone the best of luck on this and well continue to report on. this thank you so much for joining us. it is pretty close to just 30 sec...

Wheelbarrows and bringing out water, trying to save other people. trying to make the death toll as limited as it can be. >> thank you so much, sir. 149 people dead so far. 7.1 magnitude quake. and well continue to report from there. joining us from mexico city. up next, were going to go live to puerto rico. residents are preparing for what could be a catastrophic hurricane marie yachlt plus, a brand new forecast for the storm minutes away. i know when i hand them the keys to their first car its ...

Okay. >> yeah. and were already have our safe place. the closet with water and with food and waiting for maria. >> i understand that you have been working to get supplies to st. thomas after it was hit by hurricane irma. and you talked to friends there. did they give you any advice on handling this storm? >> yeah. im originally from st. thomas. but when my friends are there, i help them to get out. and i called them today to ask them what they most regret not to have? and they told me a lot of w...

Conditions there and soon about to hit puerto rico. well check back with nic paten walsh when we get him back as need be here on cnn. in the meantime, cnns michael holmes live for us in antigua this evening. youre live in antigua tonight. what are the conditions? >> reporter: its starting abate here, don. i can tell you all day from dawn right through now, it has been pounding here in antigua. and that really makes a comparison. like you said, it started to slow down. when we were 120 miles nort...

Miles away from the eye. imagine what it was like if you were on dominica, which was this island where it first made landfall as a cat 5. they were expecting maybe a cat 3. they got a cat 5. this is a place that was not ready for a hurricane of that size. we talked to a pilot who flies around here. he said years ago a tropical storm did damage on dominica. this was a cat 5. we still dont know how bad the damage is there. whether there were casualties. the prime minister did manage to get a post ...

But even today power was lost when the storm was only 200 miles away from it, and the winds are only going to get stronger. if you take a look at this, this is a population density map. and its sporadic through the area. but san juan, we calculated over half the population is in the eastern third. and heres your calculation tomorrow placing san juan in the place you do not want to me bee. the amount of rainfall could be staggering. but first, if you just look at the power outages, the wris is wh...