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For local, many have closed up shop. gone home. the government will be shut iti down for the next hour. that means nonessential operations will be shut down until friday. for tourists, close to 4,000 of them, they will be hunkering down many of them here in this hotel. others possible y in some shelts as well because the airport here, a very popular tourist destination for not only the united states, but for europe, likely not going to open until tomorrow afternoon. at least tomorrow afternoon. ...

Principal. we can help you plan for that. >> shannon: puerto rico under siege, the island of more than 3 million hunkering down as hurricane maria does devastating damage. winds of 150 miles an hour. hundreds of shelters have been opened for evacuees. eighth deaths already blamed on the storms. its the strongest hurricane to hit puerto rico in nearly a century. well have more news all day on the fox news channel. >> bill: president trump at the united nations turning his focus on middle east pol...

Still days away, a week away, before it its the u.s. we know two-day forecasts are as good as we get. not seven or nine-day forecasts with a hurricane. >> thank you. as chad was reporting, the entire island facing hurricane force winds. our reporter, before we get to her on the phone, look at this. that is what she and her crew were dealing with. shes on the phone with us. what can you tell us? >> we actually made it inside okay. i want you to know we are joining a group of people staying in the...

Economy in the whole region has been so depressed. we cannot forget this. we cannot forget the united states ties to puerto rico and our responsibility to those there in need. stand by, everybody. much more as those 3.5 million american citizens are hunkering down facing this historic, historic storm. maria ravaging puerto rico. our e to let chronic dry eye symptoms get in the way. to learn more about chronic dry eye symptoms, chat with your eye doctor and go to myeyelove.com its all about eyelo...

The other story is maria, we will be tracking this one starting at coir 1 and quickly category 4 as it moves to islands over puerto rico and dr and you are seeing it make turn through the bahamas, theres florida for you to give you reference, theres your turn, not expecting this one to run back over to the keys but all of the islands that just saw himma and this is irmas path right there are about to see another round of a pretty major hurricane, those folks need to be hunkering down here in the...

Hunkering down the facts here. and the lawyers are doing what good lawyers do. theyre doing a lot of defense on the inside and a little bit of prevent on the outside. theyre making sure whatever mueller does, the timing of when he does it, what it is that hits the streets. they have some battle plan. >> they seem to have a political strategy. >> they dont seem to have a hello over it doesnt look like a legal strategy. >> youre right. the legal problem for them is this obstruction of justice issu...

Jacksonville residents and said theyd never seen anything like this. take a listen to tracy and what her son eli had to tell me today. when you were hunkering down in the hallway, what was going through your mind? >> everything. just making sure that we were in the right part -- like, if there was somewhere better we could be. and just praying that everything was going to be okay. >> reporter: is this a city you recognize and grew up in? >> no. its devastation completely. >> i protected my mom i...

Florida tonight. good evening? reporter: bill, good evening to you and all the viewers, around 8:00 a.m. this morning, we got a loud, were getting a wind gust from south to north, but around 8:00 this morning we got a loud bang, bang, bang on the door and managers from the hotel said, look, windows are blowing out. everyones got to evacuate into a ballroom in the center of this hotel and did a fantastic job. not easy to literally move a thousand or more hotel guests, everyone piled up on each ot...

How strong these winds have been. weve seen trash cans and signs literally wash down the street. you can probably seen the fronds on top of the palm trees or blowing sideways. for the most part, from our vantage point here to remain mostly intact. they were prepared for catastrophic damage here over the last several days. fuss buses picking up any vaevacuees. they say as of yesterday, there was only one bus here halve full. they took those last out. most of the city is hunkering down in place an...

Put sand bags. we live in an area thats secure. and pretty high. so were just taking those steps to get things done. >> did your neighbors stay too? >> i think about half of our neighbors are staying in the neighborhood. we did have some people who decided to leave. but most of us are hunkering down and riding out the storm. >> who is there with you. >> my husband and my mom, my brothers. a few friends from the neighborhood. are here were all just hanging out waiting for irma to roll through. >>...